Poetics and Community at Mid-Century MICHAEL DAVIDSON This is the first overview of one of the major movements of twentieth-century American literature. Michael Davidson recounts its emergence during the postwar period and traces its development into the Beat movement of the 1960s and the work of writers such as Ginsberg and Kerouac. £32.50 net HB 0 52125880 4 288 pp. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture