Twentieth-Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry
Download or Read eBook Twentieth-Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry PDF written by Dana Gioia and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 2004 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Dana Gioia |
| Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages |
| Total Pages | : 560 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| ISBN-10 | : STANFORD:36105111933052 |
| ISBN-13 | : |
| Rating | : 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Twentieth-Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry by : Dana Gioia
Book excerpt: This comprehensive chronological anthology includes 58 essays on poetry by 53 poets. Starting with James Weldon Johnson and Robert Frost, the book offers diverse and often conflicting accounts of the nature and function of poetry. The collection includes rarely anthologized essays by Jack Spicer, Rhina Espaillat, Anne Stevenson, and Ron Silliman, as well as work by some of the finest younger critics in America, including William Logan, Alice Fulton, and Christian Wiman.
