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Author Westover, Jeffrey W.

Title The colonial moment : discoveries and settlements in modern American poetry / Jeffrey W. Westover.

Publication Info. DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, [2004]
©2004

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 Moore Stacks  PS310.C62 W47 2004    Available  ---
Description 237 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index.
Contents Introduction : discoveries and settlements in modern American poetry -- Marianne Moore's geography of origins -- Nation and enunciation in the work of William Carlos Williams -- National forgetting and remembering in the poetry of Robert Frost -- Empire and America in the poetry of Hart Crane -- Fragmentation and diaspora in the work of Langston Hughes -- Epilogue : "We the People" in an imperial republic.
Subject American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American poetry.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Colonies in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Nationalism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Nationalism and literature.
United States.
History.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
ISBN 0875803253 acid-free paper