This Concise Companion gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the country's intellectual life. Written by prominent specialists in the field, the volumehelps readers to appreciate the poetry by situating it within overlapping historical and cultural contexts, including: war; feminism and the female poet; "queer cities"; the influence of the New York art world; African-American poetry and blues; poetries of immigration and migration; communism and anti-communism; and philosophy and theory. Each chapter ranges…mehr
This Concise Companion gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the country's intellectual life. Written by prominent specialists in the field, the volumehelps readers to appreciate the poetry by situating it within overlapping historical and cultural contexts, including: war; feminism and the female poet; "queer cities"; the influence of the New York art world; African-American poetry and blues; poetries of immigration and migration; communism and anti-communism; and philosophy and theory. Each chapter ranges across the entire century, comparing poets from one part of the century to those of another; and each one balances documentary coverage of context with sharp commentary upon specific poems. The Companion forms an ideal introduction to twentieth-century American poetry for students, while its new syntheses will command the attention of scholars.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Stephen Fredman is Professor of English and Department Chair at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of three books of criticism; Poet's Prose: The Crisis in American Verse (1983), The Grounding of American Poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition (1993), and A Menorah for Athena: Charles Reznikoff and the Jewish Dilemmas of Objectivist Poetry (2001). He has translated three books from Spanish and is also the author of Seaslug, a book of poetry.
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Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xi Chronology xii Introduction 1 Stephen Fredman 1 Wars I Have Seen 11 Peter Nicholls American poets' response to war with particular attention to Ezra Pound Gertrude Stein Allen Ginsberg Robert Duncan George Oppen Susan Howe and Lyn Hejinian. 2 Pleasure at Home: How Twentieth-century American Poets Read the British 33 David Herd How US poets responded and reacted to British poetry in particular Romanticism focusing on Robert Frost Ezra Pound T. S. Eliot William Carlos Williams Wallace Stevens Marianne Moore Cleanth Brooks Charles Olson Frank O'Hara and Adrienne Rich. 3 American Poet-teachers and the Academy 55 Alan Golding Discusses the relationship between poets and the academy with attention to Ezra Pound the Fugitives Charles Olson the anthology wars creative writing programs African-American poetry Charles Bernstein and Language poetry. 4 Feminism and the Female Poet 75 Lynn Keller and Cristanne Miller Twentieth-century poetry developed in the context of evolving feminist thought and activism as demonstrated in the work of Marianne Moore Gertrude Stein H. D. Muriel Rukeyser Gwendolyn Brooks Sylvia Plath Adrienne Rich Sonia Sanchez and Harryette Mullen. 5 Queer Cities 95 Maria Damon The relationship between gay urban sensibility and poetic form with discussions of Gertrude Stein Djuna Barnes Hart Crane Frank O'Hara Robert Duncan Jack Spicer and Allen Ginsberg. 6 Twentieth-century Poetry and the New York Art World 113 Brian M. Reed Poetic responses to New York's avant-garde tradition in the visual arts with attention to Mina Loy William Carlos Williams Frank O'Hara John Cage John Ashbery Jackson Mac Low and Susan Howe. 7 The Blue Century: Brief Notes on Twentieth-century African-American Poetry 135 Rowan Ricardo Phillips Discusses the effect that the blues and jazz have had on twentieth-century African-American poets including Paul Dunbar Langston Hughes Sterling Brown Robert Hayden Gayl Jones Yusef Komunyakaa and Michael Harper. 8 Home and Away: US Poetries of Immigration and Migrancy 151 A. Robert Lee The ongoing arrival of populations from beyond US borders and internal migration as reflected in poetry - WASP to African American Jewish to Latino/a Euro-American to Native American. 9 Modern Poetry and Anticommunism 173 Alan Filreis A survey of the complex association of modern poetry and American communism (and anticommunism) including discussions of Muriel Rukeyser William Carlos Williams Genevieve Taggard Wallace Stevens and Kenneth Fearing. 10 Mysticism: Neo-paganism Buddhism and Christianity 191 Stephen Fredman Why mysticism appeals to American poets and how it affects their poetry focusing upon Ezra Pound H. D. T. S. Eliot Robert Duncan Charles Olson John Cage Gary Snyder Allen Ginsberg Denise Levertov and Fanny Howe. 11 Poets and Scientists 212 Peter Middleton Shows how poets including William Carlos Williams Hart Crane Wallace Stevens Robert Creeley Charles Olson Ron Silliman Myung Mi Kim and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge have responded to modern technology and the new sciences of physics and genetics. 12 Philosophy and Theory in US Modern Poetry 231 Michael Davidson Addresses the role of ideas and theory in modern poetry with examples drawn from Wallace Stevens Ezra Pound T. S. Eliot William Carlos Williams Gertrude Stein the New Critics and many others. Index 252
Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xi Chronology xii Introduction 1 Stephen Fredman 1 Wars I Have Seen 11 Peter Nicholls American poets' response to war with particular attention to Ezra Pound Gertrude Stein Allen Ginsberg Robert Duncan George Oppen Susan Howe and Lyn Hejinian. 2 Pleasure at Home: How Twentieth-century American Poets Read the British 33 David Herd How US poets responded and reacted to British poetry in particular Romanticism focusing on Robert Frost Ezra Pound T. S. Eliot William Carlos Williams Wallace Stevens Marianne Moore Cleanth Brooks Charles Olson Frank O'Hara and Adrienne Rich. 3 American Poet-teachers and the Academy 55 Alan Golding Discusses the relationship between poets and the academy with attention to Ezra Pound the Fugitives Charles Olson the anthology wars creative writing programs African-American poetry Charles Bernstein and Language poetry. 4 Feminism and the Female Poet 75 Lynn Keller and Cristanne Miller Twentieth-century poetry developed in the context of evolving feminist thought and activism as demonstrated in the work of Marianne Moore Gertrude Stein H. D. Muriel Rukeyser Gwendolyn Brooks Sylvia Plath Adrienne Rich Sonia Sanchez and Harryette Mullen. 5 Queer Cities 95 Maria Damon The relationship between gay urban sensibility and poetic form with discussions of Gertrude Stein Djuna Barnes Hart Crane Frank O'Hara Robert Duncan Jack Spicer and Allen Ginsberg. 6 Twentieth-century Poetry and the New York Art World 113 Brian M. Reed Poetic responses to New York's avant-garde tradition in the visual arts with attention to Mina Loy William Carlos Williams Frank O'Hara John Cage John Ashbery Jackson Mac Low and Susan Howe. 7 The Blue Century: Brief Notes on Twentieth-century African-American Poetry 135 Rowan Ricardo Phillips Discusses the effect that the blues and jazz have had on twentieth-century African-American poets including Paul Dunbar Langston Hughes Sterling Brown Robert Hayden Gayl Jones Yusef Komunyakaa and Michael Harper. 8 Home and Away: US Poetries of Immigration and Migrancy 151 A. Robert Lee The ongoing arrival of populations from beyond US borders and internal migration as reflected in poetry - WASP to African American Jewish to Latino/a Euro-American to Native American. 9 Modern Poetry and Anticommunism 173 Alan Filreis A survey of the complex association of modern poetry and American communism (and anticommunism) including discussions of Muriel Rukeyser William Carlos Williams Genevieve Taggard Wallace Stevens and Kenneth Fearing. 10 Mysticism: Neo-paganism Buddhism and Christianity 191 Stephen Fredman Why mysticism appeals to American poets and how it affects their poetry focusing upon Ezra Pound H. D. T. S. Eliot Robert Duncan Charles Olson John Cage Gary Snyder Allen Ginsberg Denise Levertov and Fanny Howe. 11 Poets and Scientists 212 Peter Middleton Shows how poets including William Carlos Williams Hart Crane Wallace Stevens Robert Creeley Charles Olson Ron Silliman Myung Mi Kim and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge have responded to modern technology and the new sciences of physics and genetics. 12 Philosophy and Theory in US Modern Poetry 231 Michael Davidson Addresses the role of ideas and theory in modern poetry with examples drawn from Wallace Stevens Ezra Pound T. S. Eliot William Carlos Williams Gertrude Stein the New Critics and many others. Index 252
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This book offers a fresh and comprehensive reading of modernAmerican poetry in several important ways. It takes in the whole ofthe twentieth century instead of dividing into decades like thetwenties and thirties or into periods labelled Modernism andPostmodernism. Moreover, instead of focusing on individual poets,the successive chapters relate an often overlapping range of poetsto the crucial and defining cultural issues within which the poetrytook form and direction and to which the poetry spoke. StephenFredman has assembled an extraordinary group of critics to writethe chapters. There is nothing else like this rich and trenchantbook in the field of modern poetry.
Albert Gelpi, Stanford University
If I had to recommend a single book on the culture oftwentieth-American poetry to students or colleagues, I would chooseStephen Fredman's Concise Companion. Fredman wisely decided totreat the entire century as a whole rather than adopting the usualModernist/Postmodernist division or treating decades and poetsseparately. From the opening "Wars I Have Seen" to the finaltreatment of philosophy and theory in U.S. poetry, Fredman'scontributors carefully examine the intersecting worlds of ourpoetry-- the New York art world, the impact of various diasporas,and the curious intersections with politics, gender, and religion.Yet the poetry itself always comes first, and no reader can fail toprofit from these clearly written, concise, and truly expertchapters.
