The waste land and other writings / by Eliot, T. S., author 537999

“…A richly allusive pilgrimage of spiritual and psychological torment and redemption, Eliot's poem exerted a revolutionary influence on his contemporaries, summoning forth a rich new poetic language, breaking decisively with Romantic and Victorian poetic traditions. Kenneth Rexroth was not alone in calling Eliot "the representative poet of the time, for the same reason that Shakespeare and Pope were of theirs. …”

Nation, identity and justice: a comparative study of American and Malaysian Muslim poets, Daniel Abdal Hayy Moore and Wong Phui Nam (a.k.a. Razali Abdullah) by Abdul Manaf, Nor Faridah

“…Introduction: In an article on the position of the poet in society, Kenneth Rexroth argued that Plato's disfavour of poets was not early but late since criticism and rejection of poets had been going on since the time of ancient Egypt and Babylon. …”
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Gary Snyder's green Dharma by Harmsworth, T

“…</p> <p>The first chapter reads Snyder's writing of the mid-1950s alongside several of his West Coast contemporaries—Kenneth Rexroth, Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, Philip Whalen and Jack Kerouac—showing that these writes evoked the natural world together with Buddhist themes before the advent of the modern environmental movement in order to mount a critique of Cold War American culture. …”