A History of American Literature

The American Century: Literature since 1945 547 “the end of the Republic” thanks to an increasingly authoritarian government. Ot ...

548 The American Century: Literature since 1945 “The bomb speaks,” said William Carlos Williams in one of his last poems, “Aspho ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 549 selves” can somehow be “separated by desire.” It represents a peculiarly intense ...

550 The American Century: Literature since 1945 carefully to the ordinary objects around her; and then, through that gesture of ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 551 otherwise. There are poems about travelers (“Crusoe in England”), poems that rec ...

552 The American Century: Literature since 1945 revelation. “Everything / was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!” the poet exclaims and, ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 553 alliterated, with a preponderance of heavy stresses, open vowels, and participle ...

554 The American Century: Literature since 1945 illustrates two ways in which the poet, as he grew older, continued to change an ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 555 In his early work, collected in Lord Weary’s Castle (1946), Lowell’s painful awa ...

556 The American Century: Literature since 1945 published in Life Studies (1959), Lowell discovered not just a medium for expres ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 557 augmented edition 1970), The Dolphin (1973), and History (1973). Talking about t ...

558 The American Century: Literature since 1945 Consequently, his story becomes history: he told true tales of his life which ha ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 559 followed by submission, or reconciliation, is caught in each individual stanza, ...

560 The American Century: Literature since 1945 any notions of “ultimate structure” (although “assistant professors” will “becom ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 561 inimitably brutal ways – in terms, at once daring and deliberate, that compel th ...

562 The American Century: Literature since 1945 love for me.” “The water I taste is warm and salt, like the sea,” she adds, “And ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 563 to and with her father. Like scratching a wound, the speaking of her relationshi ...

564 The American Century: Literature since 1945 So, in “Some Musicians Play Chamber Music,” Bronk claims, in a phrase echoing St ...

The American Century: Literature since 1945 565 End (2001) the natural world is seen in terms of internecine conflict (“Here too ...

566 The American Century: Literature since 1945 Carol Frost (1948–), Yusef Komunyakaa (1947–), Naomi Shihab Nye (1952–), and Eli ...