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The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century American Poetry and Politics shows how American poets have addressed political phenomena since 1900. This book helps students, teachers, and general readers make sense of the scope and complexity of the relationships between poetry and politics. Offering detailed case studies, this book discusses the relationships between poetry and social views found in work by well-established authors such as Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, and Gwendolyn Brooks, as well as lesser known, but influential figures such as Muriel Rukeyser. This book also emphasizes the crucial role contemporary African-American poets such as Claudia Rankine and leading spoken word poets play in documenting political themes in our current moment. Individual chapters focus on specific political issues - race, institutions, propaganda, incarceration, immigration, environment, war, public monuments, history, technology - in a memorable and teachable way for poetry students and teachers.

American poetry --- Politics and literature --- Political poetry, American --- Politics in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History

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American poetry --- Modernism (Literature) --- Nineteen thirties. --- Political poetry, American --- Radicalism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Poetry --- Thematology --- Stevens, Wallace --- anno 1900-1999

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American poetry --- Political poetry, American --- Imperialism in literature --- Commerce in literature --- Colonies in literature --- History and criticism --- United States --- Intellectual life

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This work argues for the persistence of a central tradition of poetic satire in English that extends from Restoration England to present-day America. The tradition is seen as rooted in the uses of Augustan metaphor to criticize the abuse of social and political power and to promote freedom of mind.

Merrill, James Ingram --- Criticism and interpretation --- Verse satire [American ] --- History and criticism --- Verse satire [English ] --- Political poetry [American ] --- Political poetry [English ] --- Verse satire, American --- Political poetry, American --- Politics and literature --- Political poetry, English --- Verse satire, English --- American verse satire --- American poetry --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- History and criticism. --- Political aspects --- Merrill, James, --- Merrill, Jim, --- Merrill, Jimmy, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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This text looks back to the 1920s and 1930s to a generation of poets who wrote with the precise hope and the deep conviction that they would move their audiences to action. It offers a different look at the political poetry of Edwin Rolfe, Langston Hughes, Ezra Pound and Muriel Rukeyser.

American poetry --- Politics and literature --- Political poetry, American --- World War, 1914-1918 --- World War, 1939-1945 --- National socialism --- History and criticism. --- History --- Influence. --- Causes. --- History and criticism --- Influence --- Causes