By Christopher Beach
Meant as a concise yet thorough advent to a few of the hobbies of 20th century American poets, this ebook can assist readers comprehend and learn glossy and modern poems. It covers the paintings of significant modernists corresponding to Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Marianne Moore, in addition to the poets of the Harlem Renaissance, the hot Critics, the Confessionals, and the Beats.
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