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History of Modern Poetry
David Perkins
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Description for History of Modern Poetry
Paperback. Num Pages: 712 pages, index. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 144 x 201 x 41. Weight in Grams: 956.
There have been many books on early modernist poetry, not so many on its various sequels, and still fewer on the currents and cross-currents of poetry since World War II. Until now there has been no single comprehensive history of British and American poetry throughout the half century from the mid-1920s to the recent past. This David Perkins is uniquely equipped to provide; only a critic as well informed as he in the whole range of twentieth-century poetry could offer a lucid, coherent, and structured account of so diverse a body of work.
Perkins devotes major discussions to the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
712
Condition
New
Number of Pages
712
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674399471
SKU
V9780674399471
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About David Perkins
David Perkins is John P. Marquand Professor of English Literature, Harvard University.
Reviews for History of Modern Poetry
[Perkins] is generous, sympathetic, sensitive, inquisitive, and has a goodly streak of common sense. These are the virtues one hopes for in a literary historian… Clearly Perkins has a talent for getting under the skins of different styles and into the heads of people who lived in the recent past.
Stuart Klawans
The Nation
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The Nation
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