E. Hemingway

F. S. Fitzgerald

 

ü the period of so called “Harlem Renaissance” (20’s-30’s):

ü Marked the attempt of black artists to develop a strong cultural presence in America.

ü

Langston Hughes

 

ü Tried to demonstrate that the black artists could match their white counterparts in promoting their own cultural values;

ü Growth of popularity of black jazz bands;

ü The Southern literary renaissance (20’s)

ü

W. Faulkner

ü Concentrated upon the decadence of the Old Southern nobility.

Robert Frost

(1874-1963)

 

ü awarded the Pulitzer Prize four times

Works:

 

ü “Fire and Ice”

ü “Dust of Snow”

ü “In Winter in the Woods Alone”

Style:

ü simple and intelligible;

ü incorporated the established verse forms: the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse with American and local vocabulary and speech rhythms;

ü brought together separate poems into larger unity by the same narrator, a wise countryman, close to nature;

ü most of his poems deal with life in rural New England and reflect the old- fashioned individualism of that region.

 

 

Carl Sandburg

(1878-1967)

ü revealed much interest in the life of the common people celebrating industrial ;

ü realistic poet;

ü caught and continued a poetic manner of W. Whitman, adapted it to his new themes;

ü used free unrhymed verse which is not far from prose;

ü his language is free from pathos and expressive for the use of sayings and anecdotes.

Works:

ü Volumes of verse:

“Chicago poems”

“Good morning, America”

Edwin Arlington Robinson

(1869-1935)

ü a giant, independent poet of a classical turn;

ü follows traditional form of metrically organized verse;

ü was mostly interested in human character, the melancholy of man’s doom;

ü revealed a profound penetration into a realistic treatment of the subject;

ü his best poems are about ruined and exhausted lives.

Works:

Volumes of the poems:

ü “The Children of the Night”

ü “The Man Against the Sky”

ü “Miniver Cheevy”

ü “Richard Cory”

 

William Carlos Williams

(1883-1963)

ü A poet and prose writer;

ü one of the most eccentric poets in America;

ü his credo was “No ideas but things”(the poet aimed at definite particulars and allowed the ideas to take cafe of themselves ).

 

Style:

ü he modeled free metrical rhythm;

ü his art lies in creating rhythmical unconnected lines / the “triadic line”- a long line split into 3 parts)

 

Themes:

ü common life, everyday experience;

ü used up-to date American vocabulary.

 

The poems:

“The Young House Wife”

“The Red Wheel Barrow”