王文等编著的《现代美国诗歌》简介：The textbook consists of six parts. Each part firstly gives a brief account of the poetic school focusing on the appearance of its roots, its features and representative poets. Then it picks up some poets and their poems as examples in different chapters, which include a short history of the poet' s life, his or her writing style, and understanding of the poems. Almost every chapter concludes with quoting some famous comments from native speakers as further readings to lead the readers into academic and critical appreciations of the poet and his or her poems.

Part One Symbolism

Chapter One Thomas Steams Eliot( 1888 - 1965 )

Part Two Imagism

Chapter Two Ezra Pound( 1885 - 1972)

Chapter Three Carl Sandburg( 1878 - 1967)

Part Three Traditionalists

Chapter Four Edwin Arlington Robinson( 1869 -1935 )

Chapter Five Robert Lee Frost( 1874 - 1963)

Part Four Surrealism

Chapter Six Wallace Stevens ( 1879 - 1955 )

Chapter Seven William Carlos Williams( 1883 -1963)

Chapter Eight Edward Estlin Cummings( 1894 -1962)

Chapter Nine Robinson Jeffers( 1887 -1962)

Part Five Harlem Renaissance

Chapter Ten Claude MeKay( 1889 - 1948)

Chapter Eleven Langston Hughes( 1902 - 1967)

Part Six The Beats

Chapter Twelve Allen Ginsburg( 1926 - 1997 )

Chapter Thirteen Gary Snyder( 1930 - )

Chapter Fourteen Kenneth Rexroth ( 1905 - 1982)

Part Seven Confessionalists

Chapter Fifteen Robert Lowell( 1917 - 1977 )

Chapter Sixteen John Ashbery( 1927 - )

Part Eight Women Poets

Chapter Seventeen Anne Sexton( 1928- 1974)

Chapter Eighteen Sylvia Plath ( 1932 - 1963 )

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