Modern Poets in Search of America: A Study of America as a Viable Symbol in Hart Crane, W.C. Williams, Pound, and Lowell

FAIN: FB-11297-72

Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3800)
Paul L. Mariani (Project Director: January 1973 to present)

To study the ways in which four major modern American poets--Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, Ezra POund, and Robert Lowell--have interpreted their own times and defined themselves in their wirting by re-examining their roots: the american landscape, the american past.