This collection of specially commissioned essays brings together leading scholars and critics to define the American modernist canon. Tracing its origins back to Walt Whitman, this radical poetry is inspired by the concept of democracy vital to the American dream and extends across America from east to west and in varying hues - imagist, objectionist, Beat. New theoretical approaches applied to a wide range of poets make this the most comprehensive survey of American modernist poetry available.
- ISBN10 0312123884
- ISBN13 9780312123888
- Publish Date 15 August 1995 (first published 28 June 1995)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Palgrave MacMillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English