Reading the Middle Generation Anew: Culture, Community, and Form in Twentieth-Century American PoetryEric Haralson University of Iowa Press, 2006 M05 1 - 271 páginas Ten original essays by advanced scholars and well-published poets address the middle generation of American poets, including the familiar---Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, and John Berryman---and various important contemporaries: Delmore Schwartz, Theodore Roethke, Robert Hayden, and Lorine Niedecker. This was a famously troubled cohort of writers, for reasons both personal and cultural, and collectively their poems give us powerful, moving insights into American social life in the transforming decades of the 1940s through the 1960s.In addition to having worked during the broad middle of the last century, these poets constitute the center of twentieth-century American poetry in the larger sense, refuting invidious connotations of “middle” as coming after the great moderns and being superseded by a proliferating postmodern experimentation. This middle generation mediates the so-called American century and its prodigious body of poetry, even as it complicates historical and aesthetic categorizations.Taking diverse formal and thematic angles on these poets---biographical-historical, deconstructionist, and more formalist accounts---this book re-examines their between-ness and ambivalence: their various positionings and repositionings in aesthetic, political, and personal matters. The essays study the interplay between these writers and such shifting formations as religious discourse, consumerism, militarism and war, the ideology of America as “nature's nation,” and U.S. race relations and ethnic conflicts. Reading the Middle Generation Anew also shows the legacy of the middle generation, the ways in which their lives and writings continue to be a shaping force in American poetry. This fresh and invigorating collection will be of great interest to literary scholars and poets. |
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... Reader's Digest was another thorn in Jarrell's flesh , an- other occasion of his distaste for the current cultural ... readers of Reader's Digest look like infants who are spoon fed “ palatable ” bits of news . The emphasis on passive ...
... Reader's Digest was another thorn in Jarrell's flesh , an- other occasion of his distaste for the current cultural ... readers of Reader's Digest look like infants who are spoon fed “ palatable ” bits of news . The emphasis on passive ...
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... readers.41 According to Howe , readers of the newly oriented 1937 Partisan Review experienced a " shock of recognition " ( Howe , vii ) on encountering this story . Second - generation Jewish readers especially heard " a voice that ...
... readers.41 According to Howe , readers of the newly oriented 1937 Partisan Review experienced a " shock of recognition " ( Howe , vii ) on encountering this story . Second - generation Jewish readers especially heard " a voice that ...
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... readers to make meaning . Her work reflects her conviction that the value of a poem lies in its capacity to propa- gate meaning to infinity in readers ' minds , and that this capacity derives in part from the elimination of connective ...
... readers to make meaning . Her work reflects her conviction that the value of a poem lies in its capacity to propa- gate meaning to infinity in readers ' minds , and that this capacity derives in part from the elimination of connective ...
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