A Coherent Splendor
Subtitle: The American Poetic Renaissance, 19101950
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 25, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 491
ISBN-13: 9780521386876
Subjects: Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -; 20th century; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; English; Literary Criticism; USA; American - General; American poetry; Literary Criticism & Collections / American
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.