How did poetry survive?
Subtitle: the making of modern American verse
By: John Timberman Newcomb
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780252036798; 9780252093906
Subjects: Psychology; Technology in literature; Social change in literature; History and criticism; Poetry; Social conflict in literature; American Poets; Modernism (Literature); American poetry; Psychological aspects; Authorship; City and town life in literature
Other titles: Making of modern American verse
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-326) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. A modernism of the city; title: Inventing the new verse; title: American poetry on the brink, 1905-1912; title: Poetry's opening door : Harriet Monroe and American modernism; title: Young, blithe, and whimsical : the avant-gardism of the masses; title: There is always others : experimental verse and "ulterior social result"; title: Volunteers of America, 1917 : the seven arts and the Great War; title: Keys to the city; title: Gutter and skyline : the new verse and the metropolitan cityscape; title: Footprints of the 20th century : American skyscrapers, modern poems; title: Subway fare : toward a poetics of rapid transit.