Poems Containing History: Twentieth-Century American Poetry's Engagement with the Past

This book argues that twentieth-century American poetry has "contained" and helped its readers think about history in a variety of provocative and powerful ways, showing that even as history evolved into a professional discipline in the late nineteenth-century, twentieth-century American poets continue to take history as the subject of their poems.

Author: Gary Grieve-Carlson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 11/14/2016
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781498550451