Modern Poetry after Modernism

By James Longenbach

Book Overview

Robert Lowell and many who followed in his personal, reflective style, such as John Berryman, W.S. Merwin and Adrienne Rich, have been seen as breaking with the influence of T.S. Eliot and the New Critics. But Jim Longenbach argues in this book, that this breakthrough narrative no longer makes good sense, due to our changing conceptions of what constitutes modernism and its new critical values, and the now-ubiquitous use of the term post-modern. Longenbach's work offers a wide-ranging account of the past 40 years of American poetry and allows for fuller appreciation of women poets.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195101774
• ISBN13: 9780195101775
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.9" x 6.2"