Subject Area: Poetry-Anthologies

A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Spanish Poetry: The Generation of 1970

Ramos-Garcia, Luis A.
1997 0-7734-8435-3 364 pages
Following a scholarly introduction by Miguel Casado, the anthology proceeds chronologically with bilingual renditions of several poems by each of these thirty poets who have contributed the most to the forging of the Generation '70. The translations accurately reproduce the spirit of historical rupture, the self-deceptions of postmodern societies, and refreshing testimony of what it means to be living in a post-Franco era away from oppressive cultural forces.

Mellen Contemporary Poets

Challen, Paul
1993 0-7734-2786-4 64 pages
Selections from some of Mellen's most distinguished poets. Biographical information included.

Modernist Image

Lewis, Ethan
2007 0-7734-5758-5 252 pages
This book builds on previous research to scrutinize the poetry of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot through the lens of Imagism. While Pound eventually disassociated himself from the Imagist movement and Eliot never belonged to it, it was still an influence on the development of these two poets. Therefore, Imagism is essential to a proper understanding of certain elements in the works of these twentieth-century poets.

Poetic Meditations on Death: A Gothic and Romantic Literary Genre
of the Long Eighteenth Century (1693-1858)

van Leeuwen, Evert Jan
2014 0-7734-4265-0 340 pages
This anthology of graveyard poetry is designed to make available to students of English-language literature this once popular but now rather obscure genre of eighteenth-century verse. It contains foundational graveyard poems, innovative and original variations, notable and frivolous imitations, and several odd and noteworthy transformations by British and American poets.

THE IMPORTANCE OF READING UNKNOWN POETS IN RELATION TO THOSE WHO ARE KNOWN The Achievement of the Poets of Sangamon, Illinois

Lewis, Ethan
2008 0-7734-5777-5 280 pages
This critical anthology features fourteen relatively unknown poets from Sangamon, Illinois examining their impact on one another and their importance in establishing a context for understanding the work of more noted poets. The importance of reading poets in relation to one another for the study of literary history is emphasized in the interpretations of the poets included herein.