A Coherent Splendor: The American Poetic Renaissance, 1910–1950 - Rilegato

Gelpi, Albert

 
9780521345330: A Coherent Splendor: The American Poetic Renaissance, 1910–1950

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In this book Albert Gelpi traces the emergence of American Modernist poetry as a reaction to, and outgrowth of, the Romantic ideology of the nineteenth century. He focuses on the remarkable generation of poets who came to maturity in the years of the First World War and whose works constitute the principal body of poetic Modernism in English. Gelpi argues that the essential dialectic in Modernism extends and reconstitutes issues central to Romanticism. This is expressed in the interaction between two important strains in Modernism: the Symbolist exemplified in Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, Allan Tate, and Hart Crane; and the Imagist, exemplified in Ezra Pound, H. D. and William Carlos Williams.

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'The most vigorous, most consistently interesting study we have of twentieth-century American poetry in its relation to its Romantic percursors. Albert Gelpi's book is a powerful revisionist history of Modernism ... [His] breadth and range are remarkable.' Marjorie Perloff

'As distinguished a work as the author's The Tenth Muse ... The essays are unquestionable major critical and aesthetic statements on American poetry'. J. J. Patton, Choice

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Professor Gelpi traces the emergence of American Modernist poetry as a reaction to, and outgrowth of, the Romantic ideology of the nineteenth century. He focuses on the generation of poets who came to maturity in the years of the First World War and whose works constitute the principal body of poetic modernism in English.

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9780521386876: A Coherent Splendor: The American Poetic Renaissance, 1910–1950

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ISBN 10:  052138687X ISBN 13:  9780521386876
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2010
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