[New-Poetry] HAP: the moderns

[Anny Ballardini]

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  http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,777359,00.html

  A HISTORY OF AMERICAN POETRY, 1900—1940 (524 pp.)—Horace Gregory and Marya Zaturenska—Harcourf, Brace ($4). 

  The first U.S. poet of the century to succeed in growing up, say the Gregorys, was Edwin Arlington Robinson. The Gregorys suggest parallels between Robinson's keen-witted accomplishment and that of Henry James: "Both men separately held in respect the progress of self-realization. ..." The authors esteem Robinson's verse, which they consider as good as Thomas Hardy's, and Robert Frost's "Horatian serenity," as much as Ezra Pound & Co. and the Midwestern awakenings of Vachel Lindsay, Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters. 

  The brightest decade, the '20s, makes the best section of the book. Modeling their work on Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets, the Gregorys have included not only biographical information but legends and anecdotes.


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