{"product_id":"the-art-of-twentiethcentury-american-poetry-9781405121071","title":"The Art of TwentiethCentury American Poetry","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten by a leading critic, this invigorating introduction to modernist American poetry conveys the excitement that can be generated by a careful reading of modernist poems. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style:\" none\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEncourages readers to identify with the modernists' sense of the revolutionary possibilities of their art.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style:\" none\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEmbraces four generations of modernist American poets up through to the 1980s.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style:\" none\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eGives readers a sense of the ambitions, the disillusionments and the continuities of modernist poetry.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style:\" none\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes close readings of particular poems which show how readers can use these works to connect with what concerns them.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Altieri’s powerful readings [are] excellent analyses of poems by Oppen and Bishop, as well as by a host of others, [that] offer insights both into the details of the texts and the wider intellectual issues at stake, while the book’s differing vocations come together powerfully when it analyses the self-projections of ‘Prufrock.’” (\u003ci\u003eYear's Work in English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, November 2008)  \u003cp\u003e\"Altieri is thoroughly captivating, especially when his precise, synthetic, and innovative interpretations focus on beloved poets such as T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery.\"\u003cbr\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Wallace Stevens Journal\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: An Overview 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The New Realism in Modernist Poetry: Pound and Williams 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Doctrine of Impersonality and Modernism’s War on Rhetoric: Eliot, Loy, and Moore 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 How Modernist Poetics Failed and Efforts at Renewal: Williams, Oppen, and Hughes 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Return to Rhetoric in Modernist Poetry: Stevens and Auden 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Modernist Dilemmas and Early Post-Modernist Responses 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 215\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorks Cited 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 234\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 243\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407858934103,"sku":"9781405121071","price":38.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405121071.jpg?v=1730500762","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-art-of-twentiethcentury-american-poetry-9781405121071","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}