How Did Poetry Survive?: The Making of Modern American Verse

by John Timberman Newcomb

Book Overview

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, The Masses, Others, and The Seven Arts--John Timberman Newcomb shows how each advanced ambitious agendas combining urban subjects, stylistic experimentation, and progressive social ideals. While subsequent literary history has favored the poets whose work made them distinct--individuals singled...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252036794
• ISBN13: 9780252036798
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"