American and British Verse in the Twentieth Century: The Poetry That Matters: The Poetry That Matters

by Colin Falck

This title was first published in 2003. "Why is it that almost no one can quote more than a few words from any American or British poet since (say) Robert Lowell or Philip Larkin?" asks critic and poet Colin Falck. This volume is a critical history of 20th-century poetry as well as a study of what the author sees as the decline of that poetry during the century's last three decades. Basing his argument in the ideas of English and German romanticism,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138707570
• ISBN13: 9781138707573
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Routledge