Poetry in American Literature

American Poetry, like arts includes American life but has speciality of peculiar craziness of cut off fragments, jagged purity and desperation, its explicitness, its physicality, its sudden, charged evocations of the past, its power to use the stuff of daily life, and its discourse and feeling. Since its beginning, if has grown to such a magnitude that it now depicts each and every aspect of American life both within and without. Since its beginning the domain of American literature has witnessed birth and elevation of numerous poets who have contributed a great deal that made poetry as an essential part of life. The book deals with poetry of great stalwarts of American poetry like Thomas Campion, Yvor Winters, Ben Jonson, Williams, Larkin, Lawrence, Whitman, Moore, Bishop, Oppen, Heaney, Blake, Freneau, Wright, Stevens, Toomer, Levine, anne Winters, T.S. Eliot, Fusao Inada. Ferlinghetti, Lihn, Giannini, de Campos, Rakosi, Duncan, Ritsos, Hamady, Levertov and numerous others who have enriched American poetry through their lifelong endeavor. In addition, the book also contains criticisms, explanations and elucidations on various literary topics in lucid language. This sincere endeavor towards American poetry and literature will suit to the needs of teachers, students, language consultants, scholars and general readers.