Written by a leading critic, this invigorating introduction to modernist American poetry conveys the excitement that can be generated by a careful reading of modernist poems.

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• Encourages readers to identify with the modernists' sense of the revolutionary possibilities of their art.
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• Embraces four generations of modernist American poets up through to the 1980s.
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• Gives readers a sense of the ambitions, the disillusionments and the continuities of modernist poetry.
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• Includes close readings of particular poems which show how readers can use these works to connect with what concerns them.

About the Author
Charles Altieri is Stageberg Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His previous publications include The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects (2003), Subjective Agency: A Theory of First-person Expressivity and its Social Implications (Blackwell, 1994), Postmodernism Now (1999), and Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry (1990).

Reviews
"Altieri's powerful readings [are] excellent analyses of poems by Oppen and Bishop, as well as by a host of others, [that] offer insights both into the details of the texts and the wider intellectual issues at stake, while the book's differing vocations come together powerfully when it analyses the self-projections of 'Prufrock.'" (Year's Work in English Studies, November 2008)

"Altieri is thoroughly captivating, especially when his precise, synthetic, and innovative interpretations focus on beloved poets such as T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery."
(The Wallace Stevens Journal)

Book Information
ISBN 9781405121071
Author Charles Altieri
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 390g
Dimensions(mm) 230mm * 153mm * 14mm