How did poetry survive? : the making of modern American verse / John Timberman Newcomb.
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TextPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2012.Description: 338 p. : illISBN: - 9780252036798 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780252093906 (ebook)
- Making of modern American verse
- American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Modernism (Literature) -- United States
- Poetry -- Authorship -- Psychological aspects
- Poets, American -- 20th century -- Psychology
- Social change in literature
- Social conflict in literature
- City and town life in literature
- Technology in literature
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- PS 310.M57 N488 2012
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-326) and index.
Introduction. A modernism of the city -- Inventing the new verse -- American poetry on the brink, 1905-1912 -- Poetry's opening door : Harriet Monroe and American modernism -- Young, blithe, and whimsical : the avant-gardism of the masses -- There is always others : experimental verse and "ulterior social result" -- Volunteers of America, 1917 : the seven arts and the Great War -- Keys to the city -- Gutter and skyline : the new verse and the metropolitan cityscape -- Footprints of the 20th century : American skyscrapers, modern poems -- Subway fare : toward a poetics of rapid transit.
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