Co-Winner, James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association This major study offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women p

This comprehensive chronological anthology includes 58 essays on poetry by 53 poets. Starting with James Weldon Johnson and Robert Frost, the book offers divers

Although many books deal individually with each of the major writers treated in Poets of Reality, none attempts through analyses of these particular men and the

"First published in a slight different form in Great Britain in 2019 by Profile Books Ltd."--Title page verso.

An illuminating look at the poetic debut in twentieth-century American literary culture "We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpso