From Modernism to Postmodernism: American Poetry and Theory in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Band 149)

In this ambitious overview of twentieth-century American poetry, Jennifer Ashton examines the relationship between modernist and postmodernist American poetics. She explores the complex currents of poetic and intellectual interest that connect contemporary poets with their modernist forebears. This major new account of the key themes in twentieth-century poetry and poetics develops important new ways to read both modernist and postmodernist poetry through their similarities as well as their differences. It will be of interest to all working in American literature, to modernists, and to scholars of twentieth-century poetry.