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Title: History of Modern Poetry: Modernism and After by David Perkins ISBN: 0-674-39947-1 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: October, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Accessible to NonPoets
Comment: I love poetry. Books like "History of Modern Poetry: Modernism and After" fill my bookshelves. I eat this stuff up. But one thing a lot of poetry books do is mush up the sense of it all in the hope of appealing to the academics. Since most regularly published poets are professors in English departments, it works out, but it creates a great divide between the laity and the academic.
What David Perkins has done is explain the basic chronology of poets periods. This is neither an encyclopedia of terms nor an anthology of great poems. Instead, Perkins takes a period, affiliates the poets major within that period and explains their context and importance.
He keeps it simple without talking down to the reader.
Essentially, it is a collection of intelligent essays. Some are topical, like "The Postwar Period" while others are poet-specific, like "W. H. Auden."
Perkins writes clearly. It isn't trying to impress you, but he is trying to help you understand Eliot and onward.
I read it for personal growth, but it would make a solid textbook, in tandem with Perkins' other volume covering the previous eras.
I fully recommend "History of Modern Poetry: Modernism and After" by David Perkins.
Anthony Trendl
Rating: 5
Summary: excellent introduction to modern poetry
Comment: David Perkins's "History of Modern Poetry" gives the reader the essentials of the modernist movement, from its beginnings as a reaction against the outworn Romantic era to the poetry of Ashbery, Ammons, and Merrill in our own age. Brevity is a virtue here: Perkins states the essentials of a poet's life only and so escapes the common error of overinterpretation which most critics commit. The series also pays attention to minor poets who do not rank highly today and past movements in journals and anthology editing so as to provide us with a complete picture of what the past century of poetry has consisted. Highly recommended.
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Title: A History of Modern Poetry: From the 1890s to the High Modernist Mode by David Perkins ISBN: 0674399455 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: December, 1976 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Cantos of Ezra Pound (New Directions Paperbook) by Ezra Pound ISBN: 0811213269 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The New American Poetry, 1945-1960 by Donald Merriam Allen ISBN: 0520209532 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1909-1939 by William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christoph Macgowan, Christopher MacGowan ISBN: 0811211878 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1991 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Lives of the Poets by Michael Schmidt ISBN: 0375706046 Publisher: Random House, Inc. Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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