How did poetry survive? the making of modern American verse /

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Main Author: Newcomb, John Timberman
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.