Schools of American Poetry
Posted on August 26, 2007
Filed Under Poetry |
As taxonomies of American poetry go, this brief one by Jonathan Mayhew is more rewarding than most. I am much more sympathetic to the Confessional poets than most of my contemporaries. Writers like Berryman & Plath & to a lesser extent Lowell took the New Critical poetic conventions & at their best transformed them into tools with which to make a poetry of real emotional power. No small thing.
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