Short Form American Poetry The Modernist Tradition
Short Form American Poetry: The Modernist Tradition

A ground-breaking analysis of the short form lineage in twentieth-century American poetryProposes a new genealogy of 20th century and contemporary American verseContains in-depth discussion of key American poets and movementsWill appeal to graduates and scholars in both the modernist and contemporar...

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Main Author: Montgomery, Will (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
Subjects:
Literary Studies
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
Online Access:DE-1046
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Summary:A ground-breaking analysis of the short form lineage in twentieth-century American poetryProposes a new genealogy of 20th century and contemporary American verseContains in-depth discussion of key American poets and movementsWill appeal to graduates and scholars in both the modernist and contemporary fieldsReading a century of American poetry through the prism of short form, this book analyses the centrality of an aesthetic of brevity to American modernist verse. It begins with Imagism and devotes chapters to William Carlos Williams, George Oppen, Lorine Niedecker, Robert Creeley, Larry Eigner, Robert Grenier and Rae Armantrout. Montgomery combines his larger argument, which takes issue with epic-driven narratives of Modernist poetry, with sensitive and original readings of numerous short and short-lined poems. Suggesting a reappraisal of key movements as objectivism, Black Mountain poetry and Language Writing, he opens new lines of discussion around the major poets of the period
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)
ISBN:9780748695331
DOI:10.1515/9780748695331

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