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Proposing that modern American poetry requires "limber criticism," informed but not straitjacketed by contemporary theory, William Doreski links the major American modernists to each other and to the larger social and cultural world. His concerns include voice, rhetoric, history, and interiority (imagination) and exteriority (landscape).
Doreski examines the work of well-known poets - concentrating on Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Robert Lowell, but also including Alan Dugan, Robert Pinsky, John Ashbery, and Louise Gluck - from a fresh angle, often focusing on less-discussed poems (such as Eliot's "Portrait of a Lady").
Modernist poets experienced a vast shift in the relationship between poetry and society. Two principal themes underlie Doreski's criticism of their work: first, that they turned to drama, prose fiction, and extraliterary sources to expand the rhetorical range of their poetics; second, that their poetry demonstrates their conflict between a responsibility to history, tradition, or society and their desire to generate a world of their own making.
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American poetry, History and criticism, Modernism (Literature), LITERARY CRITICISM, Poetry, Moderne, Histoire et critique, Poésie américaine, Modernisme (Littérature), Lyrik, American poetry, history and criticism, 20th century, American poetry, history and criticism, American poetry--history and criticism, American poetry--20th century--history and criticism, Modernism (literature)--united states, Ps310.m57 d67 1995, 811/.509Places
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-173) and index.
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