American Poets, 1880-1945: First Series

by Peter Quartermain

Overview

The history of American writing (and especially poetry) in the twentieth century can be read as the history of a language gradually acquiring native speakers, when there were none before, states this DLB volumes foreword. This second-of-three series profiles 47 American poets who helped to define the cultural language of the nation as it struggled to secure an active role in world affairs.

47 entries include: Kay Boyle, Sterling Brown, Stanley Burnshaw, e.e. Cummings, Edward Dahlberg, Langston Hughes, Stanley Kunitz, James Laughlin, Thomas Merton, Frederic Prokosch, Evelyn Scott, Jesse Stuart and Robert Penn Warren.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810317239
Publisher:	Gale Group
Publication date:	12/28/1985
Series:	Dictionary of Literary Biography Series , #45
Pages:	514
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 14.50(h) x 1.00(d)