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Modern Literature

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Ghosts and the Overplus

Reading Poetry in the Twenty-First Century

By Christina Pugh
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Modern Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

Celebrating the voices, current and past, that surface in lyric poetry

Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys

Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry

By John Marsh
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Modern Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Class Studies
Series: Class : Culture

A new reading of 20th-century poets and their subject matter sheds new light on the development of American literary modernism

The Hopwood Lectures

Edited by Nicholas Delbanco
Subjects: Writing, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, 20th Century Literature, American Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

A selection of Hopwood lectures delivered during ten annual awards ceremony, including work by Charles Baxter, Mary Gordon, Lawrence Kasdan, Susan Stamberg, and others

Cultures of Modernism

Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, and Else Lasker-Schuler

By Cristanne Miller
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Modern Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

Examines the influences of location on the literary achievements of three modernist women writers

Becoming a Poet

Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell

By David Kalstone
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, American Literature, Modern Literature

A celebrated study of Elizabeth Bishop's genius, as revealed through her literary friendships

Yeats

An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, Volume XIV, 1996

Edited by Richard J. Finneran
Subjects: Literary Studies, Modern Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

A new volume in the distinguished annual that presents the latest and best Yeats criticism

The Future of Modernism

Edited by Hugh Witemeyer
Subjects: Literary Studies, Modern Literature, British and Irish Literatures, American Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism

Argues for the complex and vital legacy of major modernist authors

Yeats

An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, Volume XIII, 1995

Edited by Richard J. Finneran
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Modern Literature, Editorial Theory

Includes a special section on teaching Yeats

Ezra Pound's Confucian Translations

By Mary Paterson Cheadle
Subjects: Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Asian Studies

Provides bold insights into Pound's Fascism.

A Poem Containing History

Textual Studies in The Cantos

Edited by Lawrence S. Rainey
Subjects: Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Editorial Theory
Series: Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism

A suggestive survey of new approaches to a twentieth-century classic

Yeats

An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, Volume XII, 1994

Edited by Richard J. Finneran
Subjects: Literary Studies, Modern Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Editorial Theory

Contains the best of recent Yeats criticism

Pound/Cummings

The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and E.E. Cummings

Edited by Barry Ahearn
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Modern Literature

Collects all of the letters from this important friendship in the history of modern poetry.

Engendering Inspiration

Visionary Strategies in Rilke, Lawrence, and H. D.

By Helen Sword
Subjects: Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Investigates the development of a gendered poetics of inspiration in the modernist period

The Web of Friendship

Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens

By Robin G. Schulze
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, Modern Literature, Biography

Traces the ways in which two important poets shaped and reshaped each other's work

The Fate of the Object

From Modern Object to Postmodern Sign in Performance, Art, and Poetry

By Jon Erickson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, Architecture, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Modern Literature

Tracing the shift from modernism to postmodernism and the changing perceptions of the artistic object

At the Turn of a Civilization

David Jones and Modern Poetics

By Kathleen Staudt
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Modern Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, British and Irish Literatures

Denise Levertov

Selected Criticism

Edited by Albert Gelpi
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature
Series: Under Discussion

Suicides and Jazzers

By Hayden Carruth
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Modern Literature, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Musings and revelations about poetry, jazz, and the rocky course of one poet's life

Effluences from the Sacred Caves

More Selected Essays and Reviews

By Hayden Carruth
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Modern Literature, Essay and Interview
Series: Poets on Poetry

Collects essays and reviews by one of America's foremost poets, essayists, and jazz aficionados

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