The New American Poetry and Cold War Nationalism

by Stephan Delbos

Book Overview

This book examines Donald M. Allen's crucially influential poetry anthology The New American Poetry, 1945-1960 from the perspectives of American Cold War nationalism and literary transnationalism, considering how the anthology expresses and challenges Cold War norms, claiming post-war Anglophone poetic innovation for the United States and reflecting the conservative American society of the 1950s. Examining the crossroads of politics,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303077354X
• ISBN13: 9783030773540
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"