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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Timberman Newcomb |
ISBN: | 0252036794 9780252036798 |
OCLC Number: | 939778824 |
Awards: | Winner of A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2013. 2013 |
Description: | xi, 338 p. : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Responsibility: | John Timberman Newcomb. |
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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2013. "An important study . . . of how poetry finds itself in the world and becomes an integral part of it. Highly recommended."--Choice "A pathbreaking study. No other book treats the 'new verse' of the 1910s and early 1920s with such care and with such a sense of contextual detail. 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 "A bold and meticulously researched revision of the history of modern American poetry. Newcomb's brilliant close readings illuminate the social and political dimensions of modern poetry and poetics."--Suzanne W. Churchill, coeditor of Little Magazines & Modernism: New Approaches Read more...

