American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson

by Robert Hass (Editor)

Library of America, American Poetry Series

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Contains over 1500 poems by more than 200 well-known American poets, including Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens.

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Robert Hass
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Born in San Francisco, Calif., Robert Hass received his undergraduate degree from St. Mary's College and his masters and Ph.D. from Stanford University. After graduating, Hass wrote his first collection of poetry, Field Guide, which went on to win the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 1973. Hass's second collection, Praise, won the Williams show more Carlos Williams Award in 1979. Selected by the Library of Congress as Poet Laureate of the United States in 1995-96, Hass has taught writing at the University of California at Berkeley since 1989. Hass has co-translated several volumes of poetry by Nobel Laureate and fellow colleague Czeslaw Milosz and is the editor of The Essential Haiku. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson
Original publication date
2000-03-20
People/Characters
e. e. cummings; May Swenson; H. L. Davis; Rolfe Humphries; Eugene Jolas; H. Phelps Putnam (show all 12); Charles Reznikoff; Bessie Smith; Jean Toomer; Mark Van Doren; Alter Brody; Babette Deutsch
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USA
Publisher's editor
Hollander, John; Kizer, Carolyn; Perloff, Marjorie; Mackey, Nathaniel; Hass, Robert
Disambiguation notice
This is an omnibus unique to the Library of America; therefore, all CK facts apply to this publication only.

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Poetry, Fiction and Literature
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811.508 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American poetry 20th Century Anthologies
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PS613 .A4 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Collections of American literature Poetry By period
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