The Colonial Moment by Jeffrey Westover - 9780875803258

The Colonial MomentDiscoveries and Settlements in Modern American Poetry\nAuthor(s): Jeffrey Westover\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Northern Illinois University Press\nISBN-13: 9780875803258, 978-0875803258\nSynopsis\nExplorers, colonists, native peoplesall played a role in early American settlement, and the legacy they left was a turbulent one. During the first three decades of the twentieth century, as the United States asserted itself as a world power, poets began to revisit this legacy and to create their own interpretations of national history. In The Colonial Moment, Jeffrey Westover shows how five major poetsMarianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Hart Crane, and Langston Hughesdrew from national conflicts to assess America's new role as world leader.\n\n Sensitive to the nation's memory of colonial brutality, these poets mingled their pride in America with moral protest against racism. Some identified a dark sid.