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The first wave : women poets in America, 1915-1945 / William Drake. - 1st Collier Books ed. - New York : London : Collier Books ; Collier Macmillan, 1988, c1987. - xxi, 314 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.

Includes index.

Poets as daughters -- Families -- Opening doors -- Men and marriage -- Poets as mothers -- Love and politics -- Quest for an alternative vision -- Being Black -- Passion of friendship.

Discusses poets Lola Ridge, Marianne Moore, Kay Boyle, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sara Teasdale, Louis Bogan, Angelina Weld Grimke, Elinor Wylie, Marjorie Seiffert, Gladys Cromwell, Babette Deutsch, Adelaide Crapsey, Harriet Monroe, Eunice Tietjens, Grace Hazard Conkling, Amy Lowell, H.D., Genevieve Taggard, Anne Spencer, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Helene Johnson, Gwendolyn Bennett, Clarissa Scott-Delaney, Margaret Conklin, and May Sarton.

0020196806 (pbk.) :

9780020196808

87030093


American poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.
American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
Women and literature--History--United States--20th century.
Women poets, American--Biography.--20th century

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