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...Timothy Materer 17 Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s Timothy Materer Over the period from 1993 through 1997 the publication of critical books on the major American poets has been remarkably steady. The two most critically popular poets, William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens, have accounted...

...Anita Plath Helle 18 Poetry: The 1940s to the Present Anita Plath Helle Cultural studies of poetry and poetics are burgeoning. When the White House orchestrated a gathering of American poets laureate Rita Dove, Robert Hass, and Robert Pinsky for a celebration of American poetry, the event...

...Suzanne Clark © 2001 Duke University Press 2001 17 Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s Suzanne Clark There is a retrospective quality about the scholarship this year, at the turn of the millennium. Far from apocalyptic, most publications revisit ques- tions that need further thought...

...Anita Plath Helle © 2001 Duke University Press 2001 18 Poetry: The 1940s to the Present Anita Plath Helle Many of this year’s book-length studies and edited collections are group portraits that invite us to consider the search for new narratives, histo- ries, and ordering...

...Suzanne Clark Duke University Press 2002 17 Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s Suzanne Clark Centenary observations of the modernists continue, with a biography and edition of the poetry of Hart Crane and a biography of Allen Tate, and interest in the publication of biographies...

...Lee Bartlett Duke University Press 2002 18 Poetry: The 1940s to the Present Lee Bartlett i Poets’ Prose Two of the year’s more significant books are not critical per se, but posthumously published prose by two poets: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (Anchor...

...E. P. Walkiewicz Duke University Press 2003 17 Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s E. P. Walkiewicz A variety of studies continue to indicate overtly or implicitly the limited usefulness of retaining ‘‘modernism ’’ as a clearly deŽned and internally consistent category. Some...

...E. P. Walkiewicz Duke University Press 2004 17 Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s E. P. Walkiewicz Editions stand out prominently this year—editions of poetry, editions of prose, editions of letters, including an exemplary edition of Marianne Moore’s early poetry and an innovative...

...Gregg Camfield Duke University Press 2005 17 Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s Gregg Camfield The year’s work in poetry is as ample as one could hope for—indeed, too ample and diverse for quick characterization. Not surprisingly, the trends discussed in these pages last year persist...

...Frank Kearful Duke University Press 2005 18 Poetry: The 1940s to the Present Frank Kearful This chapter having been conspicuous by its absence of late, I have tried to do some catching up in my first year on the job. Books and articles published in 2001 and 2002 are included...

...Camille Norton Duke University Press 2006 17  Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s Camille Norton Are the margins of modernism shifting? Two books, Paul Hoover’s Fables of Representation (Michigan) and Linda A. Kinnehan’s Lyric Inter- ventions: Feminism, Experimental Poetry...

...Matthew Hofer Duke University Press 2008 16  Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s Matthew Hofer Scholarly publications on modern American poetry—in journals, mono- graphs, and edited volumes, too—are somewhat rarer in 2006 than in recent years, and the critical engagements that do address...

...Frank Kearful Duke University Press 2006 18  Poetry: The 1940s to the Present Frank Kearful I got a warm feeling all over when an emeritus contributor to AmLS remarked that difficult though his was, my chapter was even more dif- ficult to write. I agreed. Anyone who...

...Frank Kearful Duke University Press 2008 17  Poetry: The 1940s to the Present Frank Kearful Reading diligently in order to write this annual chapter, I am repeatedly forced to realize how old and how resistant to change I have become. I came of age when we left it to the cops...

...Matthew Hofer Duke University Press 2007 17  Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s Matthew Hofer Motivated interdisciplinarity characterizes much of the recent scholar- ship on modern American poetry, as does a tendency to assert a broader view of literary and cultural history. This exerts...

...Frank Kearful Duke University Press 2007 18  Poetry: The 1940s to the Present Frank Kearful I sometimes wish a one-year moratorium could be called on new pub- lications about poetry since the 1940s. I could hang an out to lunch sign on this chapter and go and read some poetry...

...Michael Thurston Duke University Press 2009 17  Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s Michael Thurston No single controversial book defines the year’s scholarship on modern American poetry. (A different kind of essay might deplore the increas- ing scarcity of monographs on the subject...

...Frank J. Kearful Duke University Press 2009 18  Poetry: The 1940s to the Present Frank J. Kearful Do we have any reason to trust a poet more than a used car salesman, or a president who looks us squarely in the camera eye and tells us that he did not have sexual relations...

...Barry Ahearn Duke University Press 2010 17  Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s Barry Ahearn i  General Studies Two works this year survey enough ground to be accounted general studies. By far the more useful of these is Bonnie Costello’s Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life...

...Frank J. Kearful Duke University Press 2010 18  Poetry: The 1940s to the Present Frank J. Kearful With each passing year I yearn more avidly for the day when this chapter will undergo mitosis and become two, perhaps “Poetry: The 1940s to 1980” and “Poetry: Since the 1980s.” I...