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A History of Modernist Poetry

Alex Davis editor Lee M Jenkins editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:27th Apr '15

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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.

'… a readable, engaging and infectious introduction to the world of Modernist poetry.' Ian Brinton, Tears in the Fence

ISBN: 9781107038677

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 37mm

Weight: 1010g

572 pages