Modern Poetry After Modernism

by James Longenbach

Book Overview

In this book, James Longenbach develops a fresh approach to major American poetry after modernism. Rethinking the influential "breakthrough" narrative, the oft-told story of postmodern poets throwing off their modernist shackles in the 1950s, Longenbach offers a more nuanced perspective. Reading a diverse range of poets--John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Richard Howard, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Robert Pinsky, and Richard...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195101782
• ISBN13: 9780195101782
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"