Invited Guest: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Southern Poetry

by David Rigsbee

Book Overview

Mencken's stinging characterization of the American South as "the Sahara of the Bozart" reflects an understandable frustration with the narrow view of the canon of southern literature. With its focus on novelists, it largely ignores the works of all but a few poets--the Fugitives Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, and John Crowe Ransom, and the larger-than-life James Dickey among them. Invited Guest is the first anthology that attempts to reach beyond...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813920744
• ISBN13: 9780813920740
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher