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Analyzing a number of important works from influential poets drawn from the Late Modernist period (ca. 1930-1970), this book demonstrates how the fresh insights provided by New Materialism can inform our thinking about poetry. This fresh theoretical perspective challenges longstanding assumptions about our anthropocentric worldview.

Presenting work from scholars of various ranks and locations-including Canada, Romania, Taiwan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the UK, and the USA-this volume offers critical perspectives on what is often considered the most important poem of literary modernism: T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. The essays explore such topics as Eliot's use of sources, his poem's form, his influences, and his alleged misogyny. Building off contemporary work on Eliot and his ...

This book examines how postmodernist writers use the long poem as a means of exploring a direct relationship with the divine. They find that they must chart individual paths of spiritual understanding informed by the culture in which they are situated.

In this ambitious study of contemporary poetics, Joe W. Moffett deciphers the twentieth-century long poem. He focuses on issues like postcolonialism, nation, modernism, and postmodernism, and conceptualizes his theories by using what he calls "originiary moments”, historical periods or specific events from which a poet contends our culture descends.

A decidedly American tradition, the long poem became the premier literary endeavor for poets in the twentieth century. Writers such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams worked on long poems, but under the auspices of the "modern epic." The three postmodern long poems under study here- Kenneth Koch's Seasons on Earth, Edward Dorn's Gunslinger, and James Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover-illustrate a dramatic rupt...

Charles Wright's work centers around a lengthy self-described "Trilogy of Trilogies" project consisting of "Country Music", "The World of the Ten Thousand Things", and "Negative Blue". This title offers a study of Wright's body of work. It provides readers an introduction to the books and themes that have defined the poet's illustrious career.