The Forms of Youth: Twentieth-Century Poetry and Adolescence

by Stephanie Burt

Book Overview

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. This new idea of adolescence became the driving force behind some of the modern era's most original poetry.

Stephen Burt demonstrates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231141424
• ISBN13: 9780231141420
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher