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

Newcomb, John Timberman

 
9780252036798: How Did Poetry Survive?: The Making of Modern American Verse
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0252036794 ISBN 13: 9780252036798
Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2012

Synopsis

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.


 

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

John Timberman Newcomb is a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Would Poetry Disappear? American Verse and the Crisis of Modernity.
 

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0252036794
ISBN 13 
9780252036798
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
352

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780252079689: How Did Poetry Survive?: The Making of Modern American Verse

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  025207968X ISBN 13:  9780252079689
Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2013
Softcover