Bøker av Albert Gelpi

Ranging widely over the poetry scene and the issues that made the postwar period so lively and productive, this volume contains the complete correspondence of two of America's most influential poets. The 500 letters show a remarkable sense of spiritual affinity and shared poetic vision.

Enormously well-received when first published, this 1992 re-issue of The Tenth Muse considers the debate between intellect and passion apparent in the work of poets from Bradstreet to Rich.

Professor Gelpi traces the emergence of American Modernist poetry as a reaction to, and outgrowth of, the Romantic ideology of the nineteenth century. He focuses on the generation of poets who came to maturity in the years of the First World War and whose works constitute the principal body of poetic modernism in English.

Presents illuminating reflections on the achievements of poet Denise Levertov.