How Did Poetry Survive?: The Making of Modern American Verse
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (793 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0252036794 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The Transformation of Poetry Explained" according to Robert Archambeau. This might not win any awards for scintillating prose, but if you're interested in questions about the social background of modern poetry, and how its function changed from the days of the popular Fireside poets like Longfellow, this book will go a long way toward providing answers.. Sara Colin said Boring. I had to read this for an english class in college. Its dry and boring. Not a good book to read for your enjoyment
This urbanized world called for a new poetry, and a group of new magazines entirely or chiefly devoted to exploring modern themes and forms led the way. 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.. "How Did Poetry Survive?" traces the emergence of modern American poetry at the turn of the nineteenth century. Avant-garde "little magazines" succeeded not by ignoring or rejecting the busy commercial world that surrounded them, but by adapting its technologies of production and strategies of marketing for their own purposes. The urban scene also influenced the work of poets, shifting away from traditional subject
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. 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" . No other book treats the 'new verse' of the 1910s and early 1920s with such care and with such a sense of contextual detail. Newcomb's brilliant close readings illuminate the social and political dimensions of modern poetry and poetics."--Suzanne W. Highly recommended."--"Choice""A pathbreaking study. "A pathbreaking study. Our sense of what modern poetry can achieve--and how poetry helped shape a modernist sensibility--will be subtly but
John Timberman Newcomb is an associate 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."