The Forms of Youth
Subtitle: Twentieth-Century Poetry and Adolescence
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: August 10, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780231141420
Subjects: Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -; Poetry texts & anthologies; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Poetry; General; 20th century; Adolescence in literature; American poetry; English poetry; History and criticism
Description: "Early in the twentieth century, Americans and other English-speaking nations began to regard adolescence as a separate phase of life. Associated with uncertainty, inwardness, instability, and sexual energy, adolescence acquired its own tastes, habits, subcultures, slang, economic interests, and art forms." "The first comprehensive study of adolescence in twentieth-century poetry, The Forms of Youth recasts the history of how English-speaking cultures began to view this phase of life as a valuable state of consciousness, if not the very essence of a Western identity."--BOOK JACKET.