Dec 19, 2009

English and American Poetry in the Twentieth Century | English and American Poetry in the Twentieth Century

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

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English and American Poetry in the Twentieth Century | English and American Poetry in the Twentieth Century

Introduction

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