| How Did Poetry Survive?: The Making of Modern American Verse Contributor(s): Newcomb, John Timberman (Author) |
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ISBN: 025207968X ISBN-13: 9780252079689 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $36.63 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.520 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.20 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |