A Coherent Splendor
Subtitle: The American Poetic Renaissance, 1910-1950
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 29, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9780521345330
Subjects: Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -; 20th century; Literary Criticism; 20th Century American Poetry; Poetry; English; USA; Modernism (Literature); American - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Literary Criticism-American - General; Poetry / Single Author / American; American poetry; History; History and criticism; Romanticism; United States
First sentence: The internationalist spirit of Modernism made its poets view Emerson and Poe, Whitman and Dickinson as quaint and provincial, in fact drew many of them - Pound, Eliot, H. D., Gertrude Stein - abroad to mingle with Old World expatriates like Joyce, Lawrence, Picasso, Stravinsky.