Third Voice: Modern British and American Drama

by Denis Donoghue

Book Overview

In this stimulating survey of the entire field of modern English verse drama, William Butler Yeats and T.S. Eliot are regarded as the key figures. Shorter studies are included of Christopher Fry, E.E. Cummings, W.H. Auden, Archibald MacLeish, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Richard Eberhart.

Differing from some contemporary critics, Mr. Donoghue believes that verse drama is a major creative art-form of our literature, with a vigorous present...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691623759
• ISBN13: 9780691623757
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"