the penguin anthology of twentieth century american poetry

Lawrence Durrell, Elizabeth Jennings, R.

A third Penguin Modern Poets series was launched in 2016. 10, which, unlike the others, had its own title ( The Mersey Sound) and which, with sales of over 500,000, has become one of the best-selling poetry anthologies ever.Ī second Penguin Modern Poets series, of at least thirteen volumes on the same pattern, was launched in the 1990s. But it also has enough surprises to make it ideal for the rest of. The outstanding success of the series was No. Doves selection-and this book-will long stand as the definitive anthology of American poetry.' -Elizabeth Alexander ' The Penguin Anthology of 20th-Century American Poetry has the solid, respectable, upright feel of a book bound for the syllabuses of myriad college courses.

27, the last of the original series, appeared in 1979. Although at the time, most poetry was published in expensive hardbound editions, Penguin Modern Poets offered the public samplers of modern verse in inexpensive paperbacks. Penguin Modern Poets was the first venture on the part of Penguin Books to offer contemporary poetry. The series added up to a substantial survey of English-language poetry of the time. Poet Laureate Dove takes a fresh look at the cannon of 20th-century American poetry in this hefty anthology.

Each volume was stated to be 'an attempt to introduce contemporary poetry to the general reader'. The series was begun in 1962 and published an average of two volumes per year throughout the 1960s. Penguin Modern Poets was a series of 27 poetry books published by Penguin Books in the 1960s and 1970s, each containing work by three contemporary poets (mostly but not exclusively British and American).

The penguin anthology of twentieth century american poetry