The modern poet
Subtitle: poetry, academia, and knowledge since the 1750s
By: Robert Crawford.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: English poetry -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Poetry -- Study and teaching -- English-speaking countries; American poetry -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain; Modernism (Literature) -- United States; Great Britain -- Intellectual life; United States -- Intellectual life
Description: "Addressed to all readers of poetry, this is a wide-ranging book about the poet's role throughout the last three centuries. It argues that a conception of the poet as both primitive and sophisticated emerged in the 1750s. Encouraged by the classroom when English literary works began to be studied in universities, this view continues to shape our own attitudes towards verse. Whether considering Ossian and the Romantics, Victorian scholar-gipsies, Modernist poetries of knowledge, or contemporary poetry in Britain, Ireland, and America, The Modern Poet shows how many successive generations of poets have needed to collaborate and to battle with academia."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.