How Did Poetry Survive?: The Making of Modern American Verse
John Timberman Newcomb
Abstract
This book traces the emergence of modern American poetry at the turn of the nineteenth century. With a particular focus on four “little magazines”—Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, The Masses, Others, and Seven Arts—the book shows how each advanced ambitious agendas combining urban subjects, stylistic experimentation, and progressive social ideals. All four were profoundly affected by World War I, and the poetry on their pages responded to the war and its causes with clarity and strength. While subsequent literary history has favored the poets whose work made them distinct—individuals singled out u ... More
Keywords: modern poetry, American poetry, World War I, literary history, poets, little magazines, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Masses, Others, Seven Arts
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2012 | Print ISBN-13: 9780252036798 |
| Published to Illinois Scholarship Online: April 2017 | DOI:10.5406/illinois/9780252036798.001.0001 |
