Overview
- Identifies The New American Poetry’s influence on Anglophone poetry in defining American poetry as innovative and avant-garde
- Traces the social, historical, and political context in which Allen created and published the anthology
- Exposes the history of exclusionism in American avant-garde poetry
Part of the book series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (MPCC)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
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, social life, and literature during the Cold War, this book puts Allen’s anthology into its historical context and reveals how the editor was influenced by the volatile climate of nationalism and politics that pervaded every aspect of American life during the Cold War. Reconsidering the dramatic influence that Allen’s anthology has had on the way we think about and anthologize American poetry, and recontextualizing The New American Poetry as a document of the Cold War, this study not only helps us come to a more accurate understanding of how the anthology came into being, but also encourages new ways of thinking about all of Anglophone poetry, from the twentieth century and today.
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About the author
Stephan Delbos is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Charles University, Prague. He has published several volumes of poetry and translation. In 2020 he was named the first Poet Laureate of Plymouth, Massachusetts. His most recent book is Small Talk (2021).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The New American Poetry and Cold War Nationalism
Authors: Stephan Delbos
Series Title: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77352-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77351-9Published: 21 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77354-0Published: 22 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-77352-6Published: 20 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-6052
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6060
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 240
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, North American Literature, Literary Theory, US History, American Culture, Twentieth-Century Literature