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Companion to Modernist Poetry
. Ed(S): McDonald, Gail; Chinitz, David E.
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Description for Companion to Modernist Poetry
Hardback. Offering a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the field, A Companion to Modernist Poetry provides readers with detailed discussions of individual poets, schools and movements within modernist poetry, and the cultural and historical context of the modernist period. Editor(s): McDonald, Gail; Chinitz, David E. Num Pages: 620 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 175 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1100.
A COMPANION TO MODERNIST POETRY A Companion to Modernist Poetry
A Companion to Modernist Poetry presents contemporary approaches to modernist poetry in a uniquely in-depth and accessible text. The first section of the volume reflects the attention to historical and cultural context that has been especially fruitful in recent scholarship. The second section focuses on various movements and groupings of poets, placing writers in literary history and indicating the currents and countercurrents whose interaction generated the category of modernism as it is now broadly conceived. The third section traces the arcs of twenty-one poets’ careers, illustrated by analyses of key ... Read moreworks.
The Companion thus offers breadth in its presentation of historical and literary contexts and depth in its attention to individual poets; it brings recent scholarship to bear on the subject of modernist poetry while also providing guidance on poets who are historically important and who are likely to appear on syllabi and to attract critical interest for many years to come.
Edited by two highly respected and notable critics in the field, A Companion to Modernist Poetry boasts a varied list of contributors who have produced an intense, focused study of modernist poetry.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
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About . Ed(S): McDonald, Gail; Chinitz, David E.
David E. Chinitz is Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, USA, and President of the Modernist Studies Association. His publications include A Companion to T S. Eliot (Wiley Blackwell, 2009), Which Sin to Bear? Authenticity and Compromise in Langston Hughes (2013), and T S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide (2003), as well as a range of articles in such ... Read morejournals as Callaloo, American Literary History, Modernism/modernity, and PMLA. Gail McDonald teaches at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. She is the author of Learning to Be Modern: Pound, Eliot, and the American University (1993), American Literature and Culture, 1900-1960 (Wiley Blackwell, 2006), and articles on American progressivism, modernist poetry, and pedagogy. A founder and past president of the Modernist Studies Association, she is Director of the T. S. Eliot International Summer School. Show Less
Reviews for Companion to Modernist Poetry
“This Companionis thoroughly recommended for university libraries supporting degree programmes in English literature or American literature and public libraries seeking contemporary scholarship to augment their poetry collections.” (Reference Reviews, 1 September 2015)
