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AMERICAN POETRY AFTER MODERNISM

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Albert Gelpi’s American Poetry after Modernism is a study of major poets of the postwar period from Robert Lowell and Adrienne Rich through the Language poets. He argues that what distinguishes American poetry from the British tradition is, paradoxically, the lack of a tradition; as a result, each poet has to ask fundamental questions about the role of the poet and the nature of the medium, has to invent a language and form for his or her purposes. Exploring this paradox through detailed critical readings of the work of sixteen poets, Gelpi presents an original and insightful argument about late twentieth-century American poetry and about the historical development of a distinctively American poetry. American Poetry after Modernism offers literary history and critical argument along with readings of many of the best and most important poems written in the last sixty years.
Albert Gelpi is Coe Professor of American Literature, emeritus, at Stanford University. His previous books include Emily Dickinson: The Mind of the Poet, The Tenth Muse, and A Coherent Splendor. Gelpi has also edited the work of, and written criticism on, a wide range of poets, including Wallace Stevens, Robinson Jeffers, Adrienne Rich, Denise Levertov, Robert Duncan, and William Everson. The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov, coedited with Robert Bertholf, received an award from the Modern Language Association as the best scholarly edition of a literary correspondence. Gelpi continues to teach in the Stanford Continuing Studies Program.

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AMERICAN POETRY AFTER MODERNISM

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USA : Cambridge University Press., 2015

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1-328

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English

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978-1-107-02524-0

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1st Edtion

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Communication

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