The New American Poetry, 1945-1960

The New American Poetry, 1945-1960
Title The New American Poetry, 1945-1960 PDF eBook
Author Donald Allen
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 484
Release 1999
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780520209534

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"Donald Allen's prophetic anthology had an electrifying effect on two generations, at least, of American poets and readers. More than the repetition of familiar names and ideas that most anthologies seem to be about, here was the declaration of a collective, intelligent, and thoroughly visionary work-in-progress: the primary example for its time of the anthology-as-manifesto. Its republication today--complete with poems, statements on poetics, and autobiographical projections--provides us, again, with a model of how a contemporary anthology can and should be shaped. In these essentials it remains as fresh and useful a guide as it was in 1960."--Jerome Rothenberg, editor of Poems for the Millennium "The New American Poetry is a crucial cultural document, central to defining the poetics and the broader cultural dynamics of a particular historical moment."--Alan Golding, author of From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry

The New American Poetry, 1945-1960

The New American Poetry, 1945-1960
Title The New American Poetry, 1945-1960 PDF eBook
Author Donald Allen
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Release 1961
Genre American poetry
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Great Anthology

Great Anthology
Title Great Anthology PDF eBook
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Release 2011
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The New American Poetry, 1945-1960

The New American Poetry, 1945-1960
Title The New American Poetry, 1945-1960 PDF eBook
Author Donald Merriam Allen
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Release 1960
Genre American poetry
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The New American Poetry and Cold War Nationalism

The New American Poetry and Cold War Nationalism
Title The New American Poetry and Cold War Nationalism PDF eBook
Author Stephan Delbos
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 245
Release 2021-08-20
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3030773523

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This book examines Donald M. Allen’s crucially influential poetry anthology The New American Poetry, 1945–1960 from the perspectives of American Cold War nationalism and literary transnationalism, considering how the anthology expresses and challenges Cold War norms, claiming post-war Anglophone poetic innovation for the United States and reflecting the conservative American society of the 1950s. Examining the crossroads of politics, social life, and literature during the Cold War, this book puts Allen’s anthology into its historical context and reveals how the editor was influenced by the volatile climate of nationalism and politics that pervaded every aspect of American life during the Cold War. Reconsidering the dramatic influence that Allen’s anthology has had on the way we think about and anthologize American poetry, and recontextualizing The New American Poetry as a document of the Cold War, this study not only helps us come to a more accurate understanding of how the anthology came into being, but also encourages new ways of thinking about all of Anglophone poetry, from the twentieth century and today.

The New American Poetry

The New American Poetry
Title The New American Poetry PDF eBook
Author Donald Merriam Allen
Publisher
Pages 454
Release 1960
Genre American poetry
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American Poetry and Culture, 1945-1980

American Poetry and Culture, 1945-1980
Title American Poetry and Culture, 1945-1980 PDF eBook
Author Robert Von Hallberg
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 292
Release 1985
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780674030121

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Challenging the common perception of poets as standing apart from the mainstream of American culture, Robert von Hallberg gives us a fresh and unpredictable assessment of the poetry that has come directly out of the American experience since 1945. Who reads contemporary American poetry? More people than were reading new poetry in the 1920s, von Hallberg shows. How do poets respond to the public preoccupations of their readers? Often with fascination. Von Hallberg put the poems of Robert Creeley and John Ashbery together with the postwar outburst of systems analysis. The 1950s tourist poems of John Hollander, Adrienne Rich, W. S. Merwin, and James Merrill are treated as the cultural side of America's postwar rise to global political power There are chapters on the political poems of the 1950s and 1960s, and on Robert Lowell's sympathy for the imperialism of his liberal contemporaries. Poems of the 1970s on pop culture, especially Edward Dorn's Slinger, and some from the suburbs of the 1980s, are shown to reflect a curious peace between the literary and the mass cultures.