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American Poetry- 20th Century

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American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume One: From Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker
	Edited by John Hollander et al.  Volume One  Library of America ISBN: 1-883011-77-9 Series Number: 115 Product Code: 201196 Price: $ 35.00
From the turn of the century to World War II, American poetry produced a body of work whose influence was felt throughout the world. Embracing nearly 1400 poems by over 200 poets, this landmark anthology—the first two volumes in a series that will ultimately survey the entire century—restores that era in all its beauty, energy and diversity. Organized chronologically by the poets' birthdates, this first volume introduces an age of creative ferment that transformed America poetry. Here are Frost, Stevens, Williams, Moore, H.D., Pound, and Eliot alongside such gifted contemporaries as Witter Bynner, Elinor Wylie, and Anna Hempstead Branch. The century's most influencial works- Eliot's The Waste Land, Pound's Hugh Selwyn Mauberly, Stevens' Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction- join often neglected pleasures: haiku-like cinquains by Adelaide Crapsey, the blues of Ma Rainey, the pounding rhythms of Vachel Lindsay, the wit of Cole Porter, the erotic frankness of Mina Loy, visionary landscapes of Robinson Jeffers. Unprecedented in textual and editorial authority, the collection presents extensive biographical sketches of each poet and comprehesive notes. The editorial advisory board for this volume includes Robert Hass, John Hollander, Carolyn Kizer, Nathaniel Mackey, and Marjorie Perloff.

American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: From E.E. Cummings to May Swenson
	Edited by John Hollander et al.  Vol. Two  Library of America. ISBN: 1-883011-78-7 Series Number: 116 Product Code: 200677 Price: $ 35.00
From the turn of the century to World War II, American poetry produced a body of work whose influence was felt throughout the world. Embracing nearly 1400 poems by over 200 poets, this landmark anthology—the first two volumes in a series that will ultimately survey the entire century—restores that era in all its beauty, energy and diversity. The poets in this second volume, witnesses to the Depression and World War II, contend to define the meaning of the modernist revolution. Here are generous selections from leading poets—Cummings, Bishop, Crane, Hughes, Olson, and Roethke—along with less familiar pleasures: the meditative lyricism of Robert Francis, the aphoristic wit of Carl Rakosi, the passionate fluency of Muriel Rukeyser. The range is extraordinary: from Melvin B. Tolson's Harlem potraits to Phyllis McGinley's sonnets of suburbia; Kenneth Fearing's vernacular collages to Richard Wright's haiku; the satire of Ogden Nash to the blues of Robert Johnson. Unprecendented in textual and editorial authority, the collection includes extensive biographical sketches of each poet and comprehensive notes. The editorial advisory board includes Robert Hass, John Hollander, Carolyn Kizer, Nathaniel Mackey, and Marjorie Perloff.

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