TY  - BOOK
AU  - Macgowan, Christopher
TI  - Twentieth-century American poetry 
T2  - Blackwell Guides to Literature
SN  - 1405131748
U1  - 811.509 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Blackwell
KW  - American poetry
KW  - American literature - 20th century
N1  - Includes index
N2  - Written by a leading authority on William Carlos Williams, this book provides a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to twentieth-century American poetry.

-A wide-ranging and stimulating critical guide to twentieth-century American poetry.
-Written by a leading authority on the innovative modernist poet, William Carlos Williams.
-Explores the material, historical and social contexts in which twentieth-century American poetry was produced.
-Includes a biographical dictionary of major writers with extended entries on poets ranging from Robert Frost to Adrienne Rich.
-Contains a section on key texts considering major works, such as ‘The Waste Land’, ‘North & South’, ‘Howl’ and ‘Ariel’.
-The final section draws out key themes, such as American poetry, politics and war, and the process of anthologizing at the end of the century
ER  -