3) American Literature Between Wars Flashcards
Which poetry had impact on Hilda Doolittle´s poetry?
Ancient Greek poetry
Motives of Robert Frost´s poetry
scenes of rural life, romantic tradition, situations from common life
Which author was raised in Puerto Rican background?
William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams
Spring and All, Desert Music and Other Poems, Pictures from Brueghel and Other Pomes, Patterson
E.E.Cummings
The Enormous Room
Who wrote free-form poetry?
E.E.Cummings
Who was Marianne Moore?
poet, critic, poetry, dynamic use of language
Marianne Moore
Poems
Willa Cather- motives
the experience of prairies, experience of immigrants, influence of the landscape
Willa Cather
O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, My Ántonia
John Dos Passos
U.S.A., The 42nd Parallel, 1919, The Big Money
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
“the new negro movement”, new platform for the voice of African Americans- Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Mules and Men, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Who was Langston Huges?
Afro-American poet, jazz poetry
John Steinbeck
Cup of Gold, Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Tortilla Flat
