A History of Modern Poetry

A History of Modern Poetry
Author: David Perkins
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 644
Release: 1976
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780674399457

This book embraces an era of enormous creative variety--the formative period during which the Romantic traditions of the past were abandoned or transformed and a major new literature created. More than a hundred poets are treated in this volume, and many more are noticed in passing.

A History of Modern Poetry

A History of Modern Poetry
Author: David Perkins
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 712
Release: 1987
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780674399471

This study of British and American poetry from the mid-1920s to the recent past, clarifies the complex interrelations of individuals, groups, and movements, and the contexts in which the poets worked.

Wordsworth and Beginnings of Modern Poetry

Wordsworth and Beginnings of Modern Poetry
Author: Robert Rehder
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2016-06-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317208757

First published in 1981, this study sees Wordsworth’s work as part of the continuous European struggle to come to terms with consciousness. The author pays particular attention to Wordsworth’s style and investigates the unstated and unconscious assumptions of that style. He discusses the conflicting feelings that shaped Wordsworth’s changing conception of The Recluse, offers a new interpretation of his classification of his poems and examines the meaning of one of his favourite images — the panoramic view of a valley filled with mist. While the emphasis is on Wordsworth’s greatness as a poet, the book stresses the importance of significance of his relation to European literature and poetry.

A History of Modernist Poetry

A History of Modernist Poetry
Author: Alex Davis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 571
Release: 2015-04-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107038677

A History of Modernist Poetry examines innovative anglophone poetries from decadence to the post-war period. The first of its three parts considers formal and contextual issues, including myth, politics, gender, and race, while the second and third parts discuss a wide range of individual poets, including Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Marianne Moore, as well as key movements such as Imagism, Objectivism, and the Harlem Renaissance. This book also addresses the impact of both World Wars on experimental poetries and the crucial role of magazines in disseminating and proselytizing on behalf of poetic modernism. The collection concludes with a wide-ranging discussion of the inheritance of modernism in recent writing on both sides of the Atlantic.

On Modern Poetry

On Modern Poetry
Author: Guido Mazzoni
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2022-04-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0674249038

Guido Mazzoni tells the story of poetry's revolution in the modern age. The chief transformation was the rise of the lyric as it is now conceived: a genre in which a first-person speaker talks about itself. Mazzoni argues that modern poetry embodies the age of the individual and has wrought profound changes in the expectations of readers.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry

The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry
Author: Cary Nelson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 733
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 019020415X

The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry gives readers a cutting-edge introduction to the kaleidoscopic world of American poetry over the last century. Offering a comprehensive approach to the debates that have defined the study of American verse, the twenty-five original essays contained herein take up a wide array of topics: the influence of jazz on the Beats and beyond; European and surrealist influences on style; poetics of the disenfranchised; religion and the national epic; antiwar and dissent poetry; the AIDS epidemic; digital innovations; transnationalism; hip hop; and more. Alongside these topics, major interpretive perspectives such as Marxist, psychoanalytic, disability, queer, and ecocritcal are incorporated. Throughout, the names that have shaped American poetry in the period--Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Sterling Brown, Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, Posey, Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Rae Armantrout, Larry Eigner, and others--serve as touchstones along the tour of the poetic landscape.

Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language

Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language
Author: Gerald L. Bruns
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2001
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781564782694

-- Gerald Bruns's ground-breaking analysis compares two contrasting functions of language: the hermetic, where language is self-contained and self-referencing, and the Orphic, which originates from a belief in the mythical unity of word and being. Bruns lucidly depicts the distinctions and convergences between these two lines of thought by examining the works of Mallarme, Flaubert, Joyce, Beckett, and others.

The Cambridge Companion to American Poets

The Cambridge Companion to American Poets
Author: Mark Richardson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2015-10-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316412245

The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, 'confessional' poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry. Its reputable host of contributors approach American poetry from perspectives as diverse as the poetry itself. The result is a Companion concise enough to be read with pleasure yet expansive enough to do justice to the many traditions American poets have modified, inaugurated, and made their own.