TY  - BOOK
AU  - Doreski,William
TI  - The modern voice in American poetry
SN  - 0585097488
AV  - PS310.M57 D67 1995eb
U1  - 811/.509 20
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Gainesville
PB  - University Press of Florida
KW  - American poetry
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - United States
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Poetry
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - English
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Languages & Literatures
KW  - American Literature
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-173) and index; Frost: lyric monologue and landscape -- Stevens: allegorical landscape and myth -- Williams and Moore: history and the colloquial style -- Eliot and Pound: political discourse and the voicing of difference -- Lowell: autobiography and vulnerability -- Epilogue: meditation and impersonality in contemporary poetry
N2  - Proposing that modern American poetry requires "limber criticism," informed but not straitjacketed by contemporary theory, William Doreski links the major American modernists to each other and to the larger social and cultural world. His concerns include voice, rhetoric, history, and interiority (imagination) and exteriority (landscape). Doreski examines the work of well-known poets - concentrating on Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Robert Lowell, but also including Alan Dugan, Robert Pinsky, John Ashbery, and Louise Gluck - from a fresh angle, often focusing on less-discussed poems (such as Eliot's "Portrait of a Lady"). Modernist poets experienced a vast shift in the relationship between poetry and society. Two principal themes underlie Doreski's criticism of their work: first, that they turned to drama, prose fiction, and extraliterary sources to expand the rhetorical range of their poetics; second, that their poetry demonstrates their conflict between a responsibility to history, tradition, or society and their desire to generate a world of their own making
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