The Cambridge Companion To American Poets

This Companion brings together essays on some fifty-four American poets, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, "confessional" poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to studying the diversity of American poetry in the twenty-first century.

Explores the ways in which American poetry has documented and sometimes helped propel the literary and cultural revolutions of the past sixty-five years.

The first critical collection of its kind devoted solely to this subject, this Companion covers both well-known and lesser-known poets.

The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century.

This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.

Original essays by twelve distinguished international scholars offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of scholarship. This Companion also features a chronology of key events and publication dates covering the first half of the twentieth century in the United States. The introductory reference guide concludes with a current bibliography of further reading organized by chapter topics.

A fresh, accessible and authoritative study that conveys the richness and diversity of Irish poets, their lives and times.