American Poetry in the 1960’s (The Sixties in America)
Overview
U.S. literary history has followed two essentially separate approaches to poetry. Poets such as Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, and William Cullen Bryant followed a dominant tradition that was based on the British masters of conventional forms and assumed that poetic art depended on formal diction and specific structures; however, at the same time, many poets pursued a countercurrent based on Henry David Thoreau’s contention that “Poetry is nothing but healthy speech” and...
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