Hog butchers, beggars, and busboys
Subtitle: poverty, labor, and the making of modern American poetry
By: John Marsh
Series: Class : culture
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780472071579; 9780472051571
Subjects: Working class in literature; Modernism (Literature); History and criticism; American poetry; Labor in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: To make poetry out of the unpoetical: Modern American poetry and the labor problem; title: "Thinking / Of the Freezing Poor": The Suburban Counterpastoral in William Carlos Williams's early poetry; title: Aware and awareless: T. S. Eliot's labor problems; title: "Starve, freeze": Edna St. Vincent Millay, conspicuous privation, and the political economy -of Bohemia; title: "Yes, sir!": Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and the poetics of serving; title: A lost art of work: the fate of the craft ideal in Carl Sandburg's Chicago poems; title: Conclusion: Distinctions with and without a difference.