How Did Poetry Survive?: The Making of Modern American Verse

Newcomb, John Timberman

ISBN 10: 025207968X ISBN 13: 9780252079689

Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2013

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"A bold and meticulously researched revision of the history of modern American poetry. Newcomb's brilliant close readings illuminate the social and political dimensions of modern poetry and poetics."--Suzanne W. Churchill, coeditor of Little Magazines & Modernism: New Approaches "An important study . . . of how poetry finds itself in the world and becomes an integral part of it. Highly recommended."--Choice "A pathbreaking study. No other book treats the 'new verse' of the 1910s and early 1920s with such care and with such a sense of contextual detail. Our sense of what modern poetry can achieve--and how poetry helped shape a modernist sensibility--will be subtly but surely changed by what Newcomb offers here."--Edward Brunner, author of Cold War Poetry

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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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• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 025207968X
• ISBN 13: 9780252079689
• Einband: Rústica
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352