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Lives of the modern poets  Cover Image Book Book

Lives of the modern poets / William H. Pritchard.

Summary:

Provides introductions to the nine most interesting and important poets writing in English in the first part of this century.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780195026900
  • ISBN: 019502690X
  • Physical Description: xii, 316 pages ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, ©1980.

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General Note:
Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Bibliography: pages [303]-308.
Formatted Contents Note:
Circumstantial satirist : Thomas Hardy -- Theatrical nobility : W.B. Yeats -- Prince of heartachers : E.A. Robinson -- Elevated play : Robert Frost -- Persistent explorer : Ezra Pound -- Superior amusement : T.S. Eliot -- Poet of the academy : Wallace Stevens -- A fine messed-up life : Hart Crane -- In the American grain : William Carlos Williams.
Subject: Crane, Hart, 1899-1932.
Eliot, T.S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963.
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1828.
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 1869-1935.
Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955.
Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963.
Yeats, William Butler, 1865-1939.
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
English poetry > 19th century > History and criticism.


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