On Modern Poetry

by Guido Mazzoni

An incisive, unified account of modern poetry in the Western tradition, arguing that the emergence of the lyric as a dominant verse style is emblematic of the age of the individual.

Between the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, poetry in the West was transformed. The now-common idea that poetry mostly corresponds with the lyric in the modern sense--a genre in which a first-person speaker talks self-referentially--was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674249038
• ISBN13: 9780674249035
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"