American Poets, 1880-1945 - Second Series (v. 48) (Dictionary of Literary Biography) - Hardcover

 
9780810317260: American Poets, 1880-1945 - Second Series (v. 48) (Dictionary of Literary Biography)

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The history of American writing (and especially poetry) in the twentieth century can be read as the history of a language gradually acquiring native speakers, when there were none before, states this DLB volumes foreword. This second-of-three series profiles 47 American poets who helped to define the cultural language of the nation as it struggled to secure an active role in world affairs.

47 entries include: Kay Boyle, Sterling Brown, Stanley Burnshaw, e.e. Cummings, Edward Dahlberg, Langston Hughes, Stanley Kunitz, James Laughlin, Thomas Merton, Frederic Prokosch, Evelyn Scott, Jesse Stuart and Robert Penn Warren.

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