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This major interpretation of the life and art of Robert Lowell exposes the full relationship between the poetry and the personal and national experience to which it is so remarkably connected. Steven Axelrod proposes that the key to our understanding of Lowell's poetic achievement lies precisely in this interpretation of his life and his art. He describes Lowell's poems as the poet's attempt to create a language in which he could more fully realize himself as a human being. It is a detailed analysis of all aspects of Lowell's career and publications, showing the major shifts in Lowell's development as man and as poet. The biography is interwoven with the career and with the poetry to give us a three dimensional portrait of the artist at work. ... Read more

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Bringing together fifty years of exciting modernisms, The New Anthology of American Poetry includes over 600 poems by sixty-five American poets writing in the period between 1900 and 1950. The most recognized poets of the era, such as William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, H. D., Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, Hart Crane, and Langston Hughes are represented, along with many other Harlem Renaissance poets, women poets, immigrant and working-class poets, imagists, and objectivists. It is also the first modernist anthology to include poems and songs from popular culture.

The issues addressed in the selections are as varied as the styles and groups. Some poems emphasize formal matters, while others highlight psychological or linguistic concerns. Yet others focus on social issues, such as race, gender, sexuality, nationality, and economic disparity.

Complementing the rich diversity of poetry, poets, and styles, the editors provide helpful introductions, bibliographies, biographies, up-to-date footnotes and endnotes, and critical selections on the art of writing. This anthology not only provides a unique window into the breadth and diversity of modern poetry, it also offers a fresh and informative vehicle for teaching this rich, confusing, and stimulating period.

The New Anthology of American Poetry
*Demonstrates how a succession of canons of American poetry has evolved.
*Gives more attention to women poets and to artists from African American, Asian American, Latino, and Native American cultures than in any previous anthology.
*Offers concise introductions to periods and styles, highly informative endnotes to poems, brief bibliographies of key primary and secondary texts, and critical selections on the art of poetry by the poets themselves. ... Read more

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Over 600 poems by sixty- five American poets from the era of 1900 to 1950
The collaborative editorial effort of Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, and Thomas Travisano, The New Anthology Of American Poetry: Volume Two, Modernisms 1900-1950 compiles over 600 poems by sixty- five American poets from the era of 1900 to 1950, including T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, and many more. Offering a diversity of styles, and themes, this second volume of The New Anthology Of American Poetry also presents introductions, bibliographies, biographies, up-to-date footnotes and endnotes, and more to assist the reader in both understanding poetry and find more works by a given author. Very highly recommended both as an introduction to early twentieth-century American poetry and as a broad smorgasbord to experience and learn from a panoply of magnificent classic works.

Over 600 poems by sixty- five American poets from the era of 1900 to 1950
The collaborative editorial effort of Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, and Thomas Travisano, The New Anthology Of American Poetry: Volume Two, Modernisms 1900-1950 compiles over 600 poems by sixty- five American poets from the era of 1900 to 1950, including T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, and many more. Offering a diversity of styles, and themes, this second volume of The New Anthology Of American Poetry also presents introductions, bibliographies, biographies, up-to-date footnotes and endnotes, and more to assist the reader in both understanding poetry and find more works by a given author. Very highly recommended both as an introduction to early twentieth-century American poetry and as a broad smorgasbord to experience and learn from a panoply of magnificent classic works.

The New Anthlogy of American Poetry
Edited by Steven Gould Axelrod, Thomas Travisano, and Camille Roman, this anthology is a joy. It will make you want to read--and re-read.The editors, not limited by any one canon, worked together to present the range of American poetry of the period. The anthology lays out the richness of the "modernist" American literaryheritage with care and love. There are generous selections froma rangeof the "modernist" writers in addition to surprising selections from immigrant and native american poetry andfrom popular song. The introductions and notes arethoughtful anddeeply intelligent. This anthologypromises to be a classic.

A Broader Perspective, Calmer Knees
The previous review by Mr. Freedman is misleading, I believe.I myself am quite a conservative scholar and have little time for what some call "political correctness."(I would note in passing that I never heard anyone on the Left use this silly phrase seriously until a number of useful idiots from the Reagan era took up the mantra in an effort to let bigots feel comfortable fighting back.)

Regardless, I adopted this text for my Modern American Poetry course this fall not because it features the sorts of poetry Mr. Freedman describes.(I have no intention of assigning any of it.)Rather, I adopted it because it gives a much fuller representation of modern American poetry than most of the Norton knockoffs now on the market.For instance, *The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry* doesn't offer a single line by Trumbull Stickney, one of the "Harvard poets" of the genteel tradition, who was greatly admired by the likes of Conrad Aiken.This anthology prints five poems.Moreover, several other "white penis people," in Robert Hughes's phrase, appear here after having been summarily banished from ostensibly conservative anthologies.(Here, "conservative" appears to mean "too damned lazy to read much.")

Yes, this anthology has a political agenda.However, to pretend that others don't is to insult the intelligence of readers.From my perspective (a good liberal who believes, nevertheless, in Milton, Dryden, Pope), this is a genuinely democratic anthology.True, it includes poems by Native Americans, immigrants, and migrant workers.However, it also includes "The Old Rugged Cross," "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", "You're A Grand Old Flag," "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "I'm Just Wild About Harry,"and "Goodnight, Irene."The anthologists' agenda, simply put, is to open the canon back up and paint a more genuinely representative portrait of American verse in the modernist era.

In sum, if Mr. Freedman fears the "The Idea of Order at Key West" can't stand the competition, all I can say is that his faith in Wallace Stevens is far weaker than mine.

The expanded politically correct anthology
This is not an anthology which aims to select and represent the finest examples of American poetry. It is an anthology which aims to ' represent' various groups, including the recognized schools of poetry, but also including ethnic and minority groups. Thus it opens with Native American verse, and closes with verse written from Japanese interred in America during the Second World War. I may be mistaken but it seems to me that it does not represent in a great way the American experience in the Second World War.
This does not mean it does not have generous selections from all the major poets. It does.
It does not mean that it does not contain tens of little known poets whose work may be interesting in one way or another. It does.
It does mean that it mixes up a vast amount of material of different levels. And that it does have a certain political agenda.
What is moving and meaningful as poetry, I would suggest, is some part of this. But the reader should certainly be able to find work here which is moving, inspiring and meaningful poetry. ... Read more

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From the publication of his first major book in 1946, Lord Weary's Castle, to a few years before his death in 1977, Robert Lowell held sway as the premier English-language poet of his time. This volume provides a representative sample of the critical discourse concerning Lowell's poetry, drama, and prose. It displays that discourse at its most vital and varied. Lowell's reputation, as the volume makes clear, has had its ups and downs; and in the decades since his death no critical consensus has emerged about any aspect of his work. The first three sections track Lowell's works chronologically. Most of his volumes receive one or two reviews followed by several scholarly essays, arranged in the order of their appearance. A fourth section provides broad overviews of his career, and the book concludes with an extensive bibliography. ... Read more

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Title: Gould, Steven. Jumper; Griffin's story.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
Author: Claire Rosser
Publication: Kliatt (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2008
Publisher: Kliatt
Volume: 42Issue: 3Page: 26(2)

Article Type: Brief article, Book review, Young adult review

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