The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry

Written by a leading critic, this invigorating introduction to modernist American poetry conveys the excitement that can be generated by a careful reading of modernist poems.

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• Encourages readers to identify with the modernists' sense of the revolutionary possibilities of their art.
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• Embraces four generations of modernist American poets up through to the 1980s.
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• Gives readers a sense of the ambitions, the disillusionments and the continuities of modernist poetry.
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• Includes close readings of particular poems which show how readers can use these works to connect with what concerns them.

The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry features in the following genres: Literature: history and criticism

The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry is available in Paperback, Hardback

The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry was written by Charles Altieri and published by Wiley Blackwell an imprint of Wiley

The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry has 245 pages

Yes it is part of Blackwell Introductions to Literature series