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The Penguin Anthology of 20th-Century American Poetry has the solid, respectable, upright feel of a book .

The Penguin Anthology of 20th-Century American Poetry has the solid, respectable, upright feel of a book bound for the syllabuses of myriad college courses. If you want a primer on relevant poetry of the twentieth century, or a catalog of the great poems (or poets) you may be better suited with a more comprehensive book (such as the Norton Anthology or similar). This book is really for those who want to get into the specifics of twentieth century poetry often at the risk of sacrificing a few of its most brilliant practitioners.

Introduction by. Dave eggers. He was a longtime contributor to The New Yorker, winner of a National Book Award, a director of PEN and the Authors Guild, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Introduction by Dave Eggers. He died in July 1989. DAVE EGGERS is the author of How We Are Hungry, You Shall Know Your Velocity, and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, a 2000 finalist for the Pulitzer prize. In 2002 he founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing lab and tutoring centre for San Francisco youth.

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With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

This is a thumping big book in every sense

This is a thumping big book in every sense. As John Roberts points out however the twentieth century provides the historian with unprecedented amounts of information, as well as life experiences to attempt to synthesise. The result here is a synthesis by an experienced historian who has lived through a fair proportion of the century described, thus providing a book which commands attention.

Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics. In this autobiography, Quentin Crisp describes his unhappy childhood and the stresses of adolescence that led him to London. There in bedsits and cafes he found a world of brutality and comedy, of shortlived jobs and precarious relationships.

Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics (Book 306). Three unforgettable characters of American women that form one of the finest expressions of the "American literature in exile" in the '20ies. 4 people found this helpful. Paperback: 304 pages. Publisher: Penguin Classics (May 1, 1990). ISBN-13: 978-0140181845. Product Dimensions: . x . inches.

New York : Penguin Books. lii, 599 p. ; 25 cm. An anthology of twentieth-century American poetry, featuring Wallace Stevens, . Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, Derek Walcott, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Anne Sexton, and many others. inlibrary; printdisabled; ibrary; phillipsacademy; americana.

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