Summary
Praise for the print edition:
"...well written and packed with valuable biographical and critical information...Recommended for high-school, public, and academic libraries."—Booklist
"...useful...Recommended."—Choice
Encyclopedia of World Poetry: 1900 to the Present, Second Edition is a comprehensive introduction to 20th- and 21st-century world poets and their most famous, most distinctive, and most influential poems. Containing approximately 500 updated entries that span the globe and cover the most prominent writers from each continent and many of the world’s islands, this indispensable guide is the perfect companion to poetry courses.
Coverage includes:
- Poets, including Rainer Maria Rilke, Pablo Neruda, Léopold Senghor, Aimé Césaire, Derek Walcott, Anna Akhmatova, Rabindranath Tagore, Federico García Lorca, Bei Dao, and many more
- Major poems, such as The Poems of Dr. Zhivago, Sonnets to Orpheus, and "Ode To Walt Whitman"
- Important concepts and movements, such as field poetics and French rap.
About the Author(s)
R. Victoria Arana received her Ph.D. from George Washington University and is a professor of English at Howard University. She has published many scholarly articles and guest-edited scholarly journals, and is the editor of the Dictionary of Literary Biography’s volume Contemporary "Black" British Writers and the essay collection "Black" British Aesthetics Today.