Overview
Sixteen essays from leading critics examine selected major works of modern American poetry. The volume opens with Kenneth Burke's assessment of motives and motifs in the poetry of Marianne Moore. Other topics include (for example) "The Wasteland" as a series of dramatic monologues; the influences of William Blake and T.S. Eliot on Hart Crane; and lyric realism in the jazz poetics of Langston Hughes. The volume concludes with a chronology of key events in modern American poetry. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, ORSynopsis
Sixteen essays from leading critics examine selected major works of modern American poetry. The volume opens with Kenneth Burke's assessment of motives and motifs in the poetry of Marianne Moore. Other topics include (for example) "The Wasteland" as a series of dramatic monologues; the influences of William Blake and T.S. Eliot on Hart Crane; and lyric realism in the jazz poetics of Langston Hughes. The volume concludes with a chronology of key events in modern American poetry. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Biography
One of our most popular, respected, and controversial literary critics, Yale University professor Harold Bloom s books about, variously, Shakespeare, the Bible, and the classic literature are as erudite as they are accessible.