Oct 6, 2008

American Poetry in the 1960’s | American Poetry in the 1960’s

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...

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