The Cambridge History of American Literature addresses the broad spectrum of new and established directions in all branches of American writing and includes the work of scholars and critics who have shaped, and who continue to shape, what has become a major area of literary scholarship. The authors span three decades of achievement in American literary criticism, thereby speaking for the continuities as well as the disruptions sustained between generations of scholarship. Generously proportioned narratives allow at once for a broader vision and sweep of American literary history than has been possible previously, and while the voice of traditional criticism forms a background for these narratives, it joins forces with the diversity of interests that characterize contemporary literary studies.This book is 《VOLUME 5 POETRY AND CRITICISM 1900-1950》

The Cambridge History of American Literature addresses the broad spectrum of new and established directions in all branches of American writing and includes the work of scholars and critics who have shaped, and who continue to shape, what has become a major area of literary scholarship. The authors span three decades of achievement in American literary criticism, thereby speaking for the continuities as well as the disruptions sustained between generations of scholarship. Generously proportioned narratives allow at once for a broader vision and sweep of American literary history than has been possible previously, and while the voice of traditional criticism forms a background for these narratives, it joins forces with the diversity of interests that characterize contemporary literary studies.

The History offers wide-ranging,interdisciplinary accounts of American genres and periods. Generated partly by the recent unearthing of previously neglected texts, the expansion of material in American literature coincides with a dramatic increase in the number and variety of approaches to that material. The multifaceted scholarly and critical enterprise embodied in The Cambridge History of American Literature addresses these multiplicities - the social,the cultural, the intellectual, and the aesthetic - and demonstrates a richer concept of authority in literary studies than is found in earlier accounts.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

MODERNIST LYRIC IN THE CULTURE OF CAPITAL

 Andrew DuBois and Frank Lentricchia

Prologue

1. Anthologies and audience, genteel to modern

2. Robert Frost

3. Wallace Stevens

4. T. S. Eliot

5. Ezra Pound

Epilogue

POETRY IN THE MACHINE AGE

 Irene Ramalbo Santos

Prologue

1. Gertrude Stein: the poet as master of repetition

2. William Carlos Williams: in search of a western dialect

3. H. D.: a poet between worlds

4. Marianne Moore: a voracity of contemplation

5. Hart Crane: tortured with history

6. Langston Hughes: the color of modernism

LITERARYCRITICISM

 William E. Cain

Prologue

1. Inventing American literature

2. Intellectuals, cultural critics, men and women of letters

3. Southerners, Agrarians, and New Critics: the institutions of modern criticism

Chronology

Bibliography

Index