This Concise Companion gives readers a rich sense of how thepoetry produced in the United States during the twentieth centuryis connected to the country's intellectual life more broadly.
* Helps readers to fully appreciate the poetry of the period bytracing its historical and cultural contexts.
* Written by prominent specialists in the field.
* Places the poetry of the period within contexts such as: war;feminism and the female poet; poetries of immigration andmigration; communism and anti-communism; philosophy andtheory.
* Each chapter ranges across the entire century, comparing poetsfrom one part of the century to those of another.
* New syntheses make the volume of interest to scholars as wellas students and general readers.