How did poetry survive? [electronic resource] : the making of modern American verse / John Timberman Newcomb.
By: Newcomb, John Timberman.
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BookPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2012Description: xi, 338 p. : ill.Other title: Making of modern American verse.Subject(s): American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Modernism (Literature) -- United States | Poetry -- Authorship -- Psychological aspects | Poets, American -- 20th century -- Psychology | Social change in literature | Social conflict in literature | City and town life in literature | Technology in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 811/.5209 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-326) and index.
Introduction. A modernism of the city -- Inventing the new verse -- American poetry on the brink, 1905-1912 -- Poetry's opening door : Harriet Monroe and American modernism -- Young, blithe, and whimsical : the avant-gardism of the masses -- There is always others : experimental verse and "ulterior social result" -- Volunteers of America, 1917 : the seven arts and the Great War -- Keys to the city -- Gutter and skyline : the new verse and the metropolitan cityscape -- Footprints of the 20th century : American skyscrapers, modern poems -- Subway fare : toward a poetics of rapid transit.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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