Pastoral, pragmatism, and twentieth-century American poetry

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"In the first expansive study of American pastoral since Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden, Ann Marie Mikkelsen reinvigorates discussion of this literary mode as a form of cultural commentary whose subjects extend beyond the simple or rustic life to encompass the major social, economic, and political transformations of the past century."--

subjects: Pragmatism in literature,  American Pastoral poetry,  American poetry,  History and criticism,  American poetry, history and criticism,  Poetics

Times: 20th century