A Companion To American Poetry by Mary McAleer Balkun & Jeffrey H. Gray & Paul Jaussen

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Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date examination of American poetry and its study

A Companion to American Poetry is a collection of original essays exploring the latest topics and debates in American poetry, scholarship, and criticism. With a broad approach, this innovative volume addresses a diversity of poets, movements, genres, and concepts spanning American history from the seventeenth century to the present.

Underscoring the wide-ranging nature of poetic practice and scholarship, this Companion provides new perspectives on areas such as Transcendentalism and its legacies, poetics and identity, poetry and the arts, early and late experimentalisms, transnational poetics, poetry of engagement, and poetry before “American Poetry.

ISBN: 9781119669685
Author(s): Mary McAleer Balkun & Jeffrey H. Gray & Paul Jaussen