
Alone with America: Essays on the Art of Poetry in the United States Since 1950
Richard Howard
Alone with America: Essays on the Art of Poetry in the United States Since 1950
Richard Howard
Richard Howard set himself the overwhelming task of a critical examination in detail of forty-one American poets as widely different as James Merrill and Gary Snyder, some celebrated and some obscure. In this new and enlarged edition, one hundred pages longer than the original volume, he has added essays to many of the original chapters, dealing with new work by the poets originally examined, but leaving the original text unchanged.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Scribner Paper Fiction
- Year
- 1980
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Topics
- American poetry criticism20th century poetsLiterary analysis
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1970)
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