Twentieth-Century American Poetry's Engagement with the Past
by
Gary Grieve-Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Ezra Pound’s definition of an epic as “a poem containing history” raises questions: how can a poem “contain” history? And if it can, does it help us to think about history in ways that conventional historiography cannot? Poems Containing History: Twentieth-Century American Poetry’s Engagement...