Intricate thicket : reading late modernist poetries /

"In Intricate Thicket: Some Late Modernist Poetries, Mark Scroggins writes with wit and dash about a fascinating range of key twentieth- and twenty-first-century poets and writers. In nineteen lively and accessible essays, he persuasively argues that the innovations of modernist verse were not...

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Main Author: Scroggins, Mark, 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University Alabama Press, [2015]
Series:Modern and contemporary poetics.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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