A Brief History of 20th Century American Poetry-- A Links Page |
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Introductions to Modernism/ Overviews Introduction to Modernism in general, Imagism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams The Modernist Revolution -- Basic introduction includes Eliot, Stevens, Williams, Moore, and Crane among others Modernism Introduction -- Covers basic principles of Modernism, as well as many of the major poets of High Modernism Life Studies: American Poetry from T.S. Eliot to Allen Gingsburg -- Traces Eliot's influence on other 20th century poets. American Poetry Since 1945-- Covers Black Mountain, San Francisco, Beats, and New York Schools; the poetry of Feminism and Multiculturalism; and the Language poets and New Formalism/Expansivists |
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WWI to WWII -- High Modernism, The Harlem Renaissance, etc. Surrealism/ Dadaism Louis Zukofsky and the Objectivists Poets of the Harlem Renaissance and After American Poetry After WWII |
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Course on the Beat Generation -- Provides excellent coverage of the period Black Mountain School & Projectivism Robert Bly and Deep Image Poetry The Last Advant-Garde -- The New York School of Poets Partying on Panassus -- New Criterion article The Confessional Turn in Poetry |
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1980's-Present Poetry and Multiculturalism The New Spoken Poetry/ Performance Poetry/ Poetry Slams New Formalism/ New Expansivism -- R.S. Gwynn's introduction "A Field Guide to the Poetics of the 90's" -- by R.S. Gwynn Expansive Poetry & Music Online -- contains a large number of important essays and interviews by New Formalist and Expansive poets |
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General Poetry Resources Poetry Resources on the Web (This website) |