A Coherent Splendor: The American Poetic Renaissance, 1910 1950

Albert Gelpi

ISBN 10: 052138687X / ISBN 13: 9780521386876

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1990

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In this book Albert Gelpi traces the emergence of American Modernist poetry as a reaction to, and outgrowth of, the Romantic ideology of the nineteenth century. He focuses on the remarkable generation of poets who came to maturity in the years of the First World War and whose works constitute the principal body of poetic Modernism in English. Gelpi argues that the essential dialectic in Modernism extends and reconstitutes issues central to Romanticism. This is expressed in the interaction between two important strains in Modernism: the Symbolist exemplified in Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, Allan Tate, and Hart Crane; and the Imagist, exemplified in Ezra Pound, H. D. and William Carlos Williams.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Coherent Splendor: The American Poetic Renaissance, 1910 1950
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052138687X
• ISBN 13: 9780521386876
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

In this book Professor Gelpi traces the emergence of American Modernist poetry as a reaction to, and outgrowth of, the Romantic ideology of the nineteenth century. He focuses on the remarkable generation of poets who came to maturity in the years of the First World War and whose works constitute the principal body of poetic Modernism in English. This large historical argument is developed through monographic chapters on the poets which include close readings of their major poems. Comprehensive in scope and subtle in its analysis, Gelpi's book promises to be one of the major studies of American poetry for years to come.

Book Description

Focusing on the poets who came into maturity during the First World War, the emergence of American Modernist poetry is traced as a reaction to and outgrowth of the Romantic ideology of the nineteenth century.