The period between 1920 and 1950 saw an epochal shift in the American cultural economy. The shocks of the 1929 market crash and the Second World War decimated m

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This book helps readers make sense of the scope and complexity of the relationships between poetry and politics since 1900.

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A collection of book reviews and essays on more than forty modern American poets.