Written by a leading authority on William Carlos Williams, this book provides a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to twentieth-century American poetry. <br /> <ul> <li style="list-style: none"><br /> </li> <li>A wide-ranging and stimulating critical guide to twentieth-century American poetry.<br /> </li> <li>Written by a leading authority on the innovative modernist poet, William Carlos Williams.<br /> </li> <li>Explores the material, historical and social contexts in which twentieth-century American poetry was produced.<br /> </li> <li>Includes a biographical dictionary of major writers with extended entries on poets ranging from Robert Frost to Adrienne Rich.<br /> </li> <li>Contains a section on key texts considering major works, such as ‘The Waste Land’, ‘North & South’, ‘Howl’ and ‘Ariel’.<br /> </li> <li>The final section draws out key themes, such as American poetry, politics and war, and the process of anthologizing at the end of the century.</li> </ul>