Overview
- Explores confessional poetry in relation to early Cold War politics and culture in the US
- Argues that the personal nature of this lyric style reflects the widespread politicized anxiety of the time
- Focuses on the poets Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, John Berryman and Randall Jarrell
Part of the book series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century (ALTC)
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Book Title: Confessional Poetry in the Cold War
Book Subtitle: The Poetics of Doublespeak
Authors: Adam Beardsworth
Series Title: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93115-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93114-8Published: 03 February 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93117-9Published: 04 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-93115-5Published: 02 February 2022
Series ISSN: 2634-579X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5803
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 186
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature