The Confessional Poets

by Robert S. Phillips

Confessional poetry as a genre was first characterized by the critic M. L. Rosenthal in 1959. It has become a potent force, and its practitioners the poetic voices of our time. The poetry is highly subjective, written with frankness and lack of re­straint, and focuses on the ugliness of life. Its leading practitioners, Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, W. D. Snodgrass, and John Berryman, have all been recipients of the highest awards in literature,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809306425
• ISBN13: 9780809306428
• Release Date: October 1973
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.9" x 8.3"