English and American Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Critical Survey of Poetry)
Introduction
Twentieth century poetry has been variously characterized as romantic, antiromantic,
impersonal, highly personal, chaotic, orderly, classical, symbolist, wholly untraditional, reasoned
and measured, or incomprehensible—depending upon the critic whom one reads. This
radical diversity suggests a fundamental problem with poetry in the twentieth century: It has no
clear path to follow. Finding previous poetry inadequate to deal with the situation in which they
find themselves, modern poets must create anew, must, in [The entire page is 24043 words long]
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