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How did poetry survive? : the making of modern American verse

Book information

Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Year
2012
ISBN
0252036794, 978-0-252-03679-8, 978-0-252-09390-6, 0252093909
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4420634 bytes)
Edition
1st Edition
Pages
338\354
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00

Description

This book traces the emergence of modern American poetry at the turn of the nineteenth century. With a particular focus on four "little magazines"--Poetry, The Masses, Others, and The Seven Arts--John Timberman Newcomb shows how each advanced ambitious agendas combining urban subjects, stylistic experimentation, and progressive social ideals. While subsequent literary history has favored the poets whose work made them distinct--individuals singled out usually on the basis of a novel technique--Newcomb provides a denser, richer view of the history that hundreds of poets made

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