Drawn from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, the title of this book suggests the cultural and literary
persistence of the Romantic in the work of many British, American, and Irish poets since 1900. Allowing for and celebrating the multiple, even fractured nature ...
Robert Bly, Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry, Robinson Jeffers, and Theodore Roethke are among the poets
Quetchenbach (English, Florida Southern College) examines to assess their attempts to find a public voice in poetry. He concludes that they have learned from their ...
With stunningly precise formal, biographical, and cultural analysis, Laurence Lieberman turns his critical eye to
American poets and confirms his prodigious talent not only as a narrative poet, but as a critic and essayist as well. What Lieberman aspires to ...
Whether looming over public squares or dotting old battlefields, monuments certify a culture's present by
securing its past and pledging its future. They embody exemplary persons or events and the shared ideals they stood for, prompting an obligation to keep ...
This thought-provoking cultural history explores how psychoanalytic theories shaped the works of important African American
literary figures. Badia Sahar Ahad details how Nella Larsen, Richard Wright, Jean Toomer, Ralph Ellison, Adrienne Kennedy, and Danzy Senna employed psychoanalytic terms and conceptual ...
Hewing to Experience charts Sherman Paul's course of coming to know William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane,
Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Gary Snyder and the critical scholarship devoted to them as it provides an assessment of recent criticism. The initial section, ...
In this nuanced revisionist history of modern American poetry, John Lowney investigates the Depression era’s
impact on late modernist American poetry from the socioeconomic crisis of the 1930s through the emergence of the new social movements of the 1960s. Informed ...
Williams (British and intellectual history, Central Connecticut State U.) examines the development of the historical
theories of the British literary Modernists, as evidenced in the work of Yeats, Pound, Hulme, Ford, and Lawrence. The text is not a work of ...