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Author:

Grieve-Carlson, Gary.

Title:

Poems containing history : twentieth-century American poetry's engagement with the past / Gary Grieve-Carlson.

Publisher:

Lexington Books,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xvi, 215 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
Literature and history--United States--History--20th century.
History in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

History and poetry -- Stephen Vincent Ben©♭t: John Brown's body and the meaning of the Civil War -- Macleish's Conquistador: history as metaphor -- A usable past: Robert Penn Warren's Brother to dragons -- T.S. Eliot: awaking from the nightmare of history -- The varieties of history in Hart Crane's The bridge -- Carolyn Forch©♭: history and theophany -- Ezra Pound and the problem of history -- Getting the news from poems: William Carlos Williams's In the American grain and Paterson -- Charles Olson's Maximus: looking for oneself -- Looking for the evidence.

ISBN:

0739167561 (electronic)
9780739167564 (electronic)
0739167553 (cloth)
9780739167557 (cloth)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)851254771

LCCN:

2013024260

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)