Anything That Burns You: The Social Poetry of Lola Ridge, Genevieve Taggard, and Margaret Walker

• Autores: Nancy Berke
• Localización: Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, ISSN 0211-5913, Nº 37, 1998, págs. 39-53
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This essay explores the work of three neglected American women poets as well as suggests the importance of women’s social poetry as a neglected genre within modern American literary studies. It examines the continuum of a radical literary practice in the United States from the first through the second world wars as produced by the representative examples of Lola Ridge (1873-1941), Genevieve Taggard (1894- 1948), and Margaret Walker (1915-) whilst also maintaining how the social concerns expressed in these poets’ work can tell us much about national and international history as they witnessed it