How did poetry survive? [electronic resource] : the making of modern American verse / John Timberman Newcomb.
Newcomb, John Timberman.
2012
PS310.M57 N488 2012eb
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Title How did poetry survive? [electronic resource] : the making of modern American verse / John Timberman Newcomb.
Author Newcomb, John Timberman.
ISBN 9780252093906 (electronic bk.)
9780252036798
Imprint Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 338 p.) : ill.
Call Number PS310.M57 N488 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 811/.5209
Summary How Did Poetry Survive? traces the emergence of modern American poetry at the turn of the nineteenth century. American poetry had stalled: a small group of recently deceased New England poets still held sway, and few outlets existed for living poets. However, the United States' quickly accelerating urbanization in the early twentieth century opened new opportunities, as it allowed the rise of publications focused on promoting the work of living writers of all kinds. The urban scene also influenced the work of poets, shifting away from traditional subjects and forms to reflect the rise of buildings and the increasingly busy bustle of the city. Change was everywhere: new forms of architecture and transportation, new immigrants, new professions, new tastes, new worries. 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. 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-326) and index.
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There is always others : experimental verse and "ulterior social result"
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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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