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  1. The Forms of Youth
    Twentieth-Century Poetry and Adolescence
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    Early in the twentieth century, Americans and other English-speaking nations began to regard adolescence as a separate phase of life. Associated with uncertainty, inwardness, instability, and sexual energy, adolescence acquired its own tastes,... more

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    Early in the twentieth century, Americans and other English-speaking nations began to regard adolescence as a separate phase of life. Associated with uncertainty, inwardness, instability, and sexual energy, adolescence acquired its own tastes, habits, subcultures, slang, economic interests, and art forms. This new idea of adolescence became the driving force behind some of the modern era's most original poetry.Stephen Burt demonstrates how adolescence supplied the inspiration, and at times the formal principles, on which many twentieth-century poets founded their works. William Carlos Williams

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780231141420
    Subjects: Adolescence in literature; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Adolescence in literature; American poetry ; 20th century ; History and criticism; English poetry ; 20th century ; History and criticism; English-speaking countries ; Intellectual life ; 20th century; Electronic books
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    Contents; Introduction ; 1. Modernist Poetics of Adolescence; 2. From Schools to Subcultures; 3. Soldiers, Babysitters, Delinquents, and Mutants; 4. Are You One of Those Girls? ; 5. An Excess of Dreamy Possibilities; 6. Midair; Notes; Works Cited; Acknowledgments; Index

  2. Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry.
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, Hoboken

    Brings together 48 fresh and original contributions from practicing poets and leading scholars, who together offer critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the last century. Brings together original... more

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    Brings together 48 fresh and original contributions from practicing poets and leading scholars, who together offer critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the last century. Brings together original contributions by leading international scholars and practising poets. Offers critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the twentieth-century. Incorporates new readings of key selected texts. Embraces the extraordinary development of poetry over the century in twenty English-speaking countries. Fully integrates women poets, feminist approaches and post-colonial poets. Intro -- A COMPANION TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY POETRY -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I Topics and Debates -- 1 Modernism and the Transatlantic Connection -- 2 Modernist Poetry and its Precursors -- 3 The Non-modernist Modern -- 4 Poetry and Politics -- 5 Poetry and War -- 6 Poetry and Science -- 7 Poetry and Literary Theory -- 8 Poetry and Gender -- 9 Interrupted Monologue: Alternative Poets of the Mid-century -- PART II Poetic Movements -- 10 Imagism -- 11 The New Negro Renaissance -- 12 Poetry and the New Criticism -- 13 Black Mountain and Projective Verse -- 14 The Beats -- 15 Confessionalism -- 16 The Movement -- 17 Language Poetry -- PART III International and Postcolonial Poetry in English -- 18 West Indian Poetry -- 19 African Poetry -- 20 Poetry of the Indian Subcontinent -- 21 Australian Poetry -- 22 New Zealand Poetry -- 23 Canadian Poetry -- 24 Scottish Poetry -- 25 Welsh Poetry -- 26 Irish Poetry to 1966 -- PART IV Readings -- 27 Thomas Hardy: Poems of 1912-13 -- 28 Robert Frost: North of Boston -- 29 T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land -- 30 D. H. Lawrence: Birds, Beasts and Flowers -- 31 William Carlos Williams: Spring and All -- 32 Wallace Stevens: Harmonium -- 33 Marianne Moore: Observations -- 34 W. B. Yeats: The Tower -- 35 W. H. Auden: Poems -- 36 Elizabeth Bishop: North & South -- 37 Ezra Pound: The Pisan Cantos -- 38 Robert Lowell: Life Studies -- 39 Louis MacNeice: The Burning Perch -- 40 Sylvia Plath: Ariel -- 41 Ted Hughes: Crow -- 42 Seamus Heaney: North -- 43 John Ashbery: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror -- 44 Derek Walcott: Omeros -- PART V The Contemporary Scene -- 45 Contemporary American Poetry -- 46 Contemporary British Poetry -- 47 Contemporary Irish Poetry -- 48 Contemporary Postcolonial Poetry -- Index.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780470998663
    RVK Categories: HG 530 ; HM 1160 ; HN 1160 ; HN 1570 ; HM 1570
    Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 9
    Subjects: American poetry ; 20th century ; History and criticism; English poetry ; 20th century ; History and criticism; English-speaking countries ; Intellectual life ; 20th century
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