A History of American Poetry by Gray, Richard

A History of American Poetry (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781118795347)

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A History of American Poetry by Gray, Richard

A History of American Poetry

$92.95
A History of American Poetry by Gray, Richard

A History of American Poetry

$92.95
Format: Hardcover
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A History of American Poetry presents a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their pre-Columbian origins to the present day.

  • Offers a detailed and accessible account of the entire range of American poetry
  • Situates the story of American poetry within crucial social and historical contexts, and places individual poets and poems in the relevant intertextual contexts
  • Explores and interprets American poetry in terms of the international positioning and multicultural character of the United States
  • Provides readers with a means to understand the individual works and personalities that helped to shape one of the most significant bodies of literature of the past few centuries


Author: Richard Gray
ISBN-10: 1118795342
ISBN-13: 9781118795347
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 03/30/2015
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.34lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 1.19d
By Richard Gray
By Richard Gray
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Richard Gray has been Professor or Distinguished Visiting Professor at several universities in the UK and USA, including Essex, Georgia and South Carolina. He is the first specialist in American literature to be elected a Fellow of the British Academy and has published over a dozen books on the topic, including the award-winning Writing the South: Ideas of an American Region (1986) and The Life of William Faulkner: A Critical Biography (1994).

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