Dictionary Of Literary Biography Volume 54: American Poets, 1880-1945 Third Series [in Two Volumes]

Quartermain, Peter; editor

ISBN 10: 081031732X / ISBN 13: 9780810317321

Published by Gale Research, Detroit, ET AL, 1987

Ex-library copy with blind stamp on title page and withdrawn ink stamp on copyright page. Label residue on spine end. Otherwise very good. ; In two volumes. Seller Inventory # 286244

Synopsis:

The story of modern American poetry to World War II is the story of successive generations of writers increasingly gaining familiarity in and security with the American idiom, states the forward to this third and final series on American poets writing during a period of unprecedented national growth and development. It is instructive, then, to group poets...as these volumes of the Dictionary of Literary Biography do, it continues ...The complexity of the pressures on the writer, of the patterns of literary history of which he is a part, are then emphasized.Included with this volume are a survey of poetry anthologies and a list of suggested books for further reading.

48 entries include: William Stanley Braithwaite, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, Robert Frost, George Cabot Lodge, Edgar Lee Masters, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Carl Sandburg, Anne Spencer, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Dictionary Of Literary Biography Volume 54: ...
Publisher: Gale Research, Detroit, ET AL
Publication Date: 1987
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good-
Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
Edition: Ex-library.