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American Poetry : The Twentieth Century, Volume 1 : Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker,Used
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In the years between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of World War II, American poetry was transformed, producing a body of work whose influence was felt throughout the world. Now for the first time the landmark twovolume Library of America anthology of twentiethcentury poetry through the postWar years restores that era in all its astonishing beauty and explosive energy.This first volume of the set, organized chronologically by the poets birthdates, takes the reader from Henry Adams (18381918) to Dorothy Parker (18931967), and in the process reveals the unfolding of a true poetic renaissance. Included are generous selections from some of the centurys greatest poets: Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, H.D., Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot. Here they are seen as part of an age that proposed new and often contentious definitions of what American poetry could be and fresh perceptions of a society undergoing rapid and often tumultuous change.The multifarious aesthetic influences brought to bearChinese and Japanese poetry, the AfricanAmerican sermon, the artistic revolutions of Cubism and Dada, the cadences of jazz, the brash urgencies of vernacular speechresulted in a poetic culture of dynamic energy and startling contrasts.The poets of this era transformed not only style but traditional subject matter: there are poems here on a silent movie actress, a lynching, the tenements of New York, the trench warfare of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the landscape of Mars. Here too are folk ballads on events like the assassination of McKinley and the sinking of the Titanic; popular and humorous verse by Don Marquis and Franklin P. Adams; the famous Spectra hoax; song lyrics by Ma Rainey, Joe Hill, and Irving Berlin; and poems by writers as unexpected as Djuna Barnes, Sherwood Anderson, John Reed, and H. P. Lovecraft. Included are some of the centurys most important poems, presented in full: Pounds Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, Eliots The Waste Land, Stevens Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nations literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, Americas best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acidfree paper that will last for centuries.
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