The Black Mountain poets Charles Olson Robert Creeley Robert Duncan Denise Levertov Edward Dorn sometimes called projectivist poets, were a group of mid 20th century American avant-garde or postmodern poets centered on Black Mountain College...
The Fugitives Poets from the South (the Fugitives) Attended university in Nashville Politically very conservative Their poems expressed a sense of despair of Southern loss of prestige about modern civilization Felt alienated from the West of American nation Nostalgia for the past John Crowe...
The Great Romantic Poets Walt Whitman (1819-92) a major US poet who wrote about individual freedom, equal rights and sexual love, as well as about his love for America. Though many readers thought his poems were immoral, he had a strong influ...
the Harlem Renaissance a movement in African-American culture in the 1920s which began in the New York district of Harlem. Achievements were made in literature, music, art and the theatre. Among the writers involved were Countee Cullen, Jean Toomer...
The New York School John Ashbery Frank O'Hara Kenneth Koch Barbara Guest James Schuyler deeply interested in European art local acute knowledge of…? the poet decides on the choice of words Personism is a life stance that has been called the philosophy of Peter Singer. It amounts to a branch ...
The Objectivist poets Louis Zukofsky Charles Reznikoff Lohire Nidecker The Objectivist poets were a loose-knit group of second-generation Modernists who emerged in the 1930s. They were mainly American and were influenced by, amongst others, Ezra...
What subgenres did Puritans write? Sermons, for example Jeremiah sermons - political ones; very violent Chronicles - historiography; early account of Puritan history Captivity narratives Letters Diaries Journals Biographies Main types of Puritan poetry: Elegies Religious and meditative ver...
Poets of the Enlightenment Developments in science - a man is able to explore world through his mind Pragmatism - understand/analyze the world through experience New picture of a man - man Is no longer - reflection of God but he's reasonable creature; he can control own life; self-reliance New p...
