Would Poetry Disappear?: American Verse and the Crisis of Modernity
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Would Poetry Disappear?: American Verse and the Crisis of Modernity
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Would Poetry Disappear?: American Verse and the Crisis of Modernity

Would Poetry Disappear?: American Verse and the Crisis of Modernity

by JOHN TIMBERMAN NEWCOMB
Would Poetry Disappear?: American Verse and the Crisis of Modernity

Would Poetry Disappear?: American Verse and the Crisis of Modernity

by JOHN TIMBERMAN NEWCOMB

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ISBN-13: 9780814251249
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Publication date: 04/28/2004
Edition description: 1
Pages: 296
Product dimensions: 5.96(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.72(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsix
List of Illustrationsxiii
Introductionxv
Part 1Consensus
1.Looking Backward from 1890: Antimodernity in Canonical American Poetry3
Part 2Crisis
2.Invasion of the Tinsel Rhymesters: Poetry, Mass Culture, "Nineteen Hundred and Now"47
3.Perished Celebrities and Secret Doors: Modern Verse as Waste Paper104
Part 3Horizons
4."Tell Us Why You Play!": Young Poets of the 1890s143
5.The Business of Modern Verse190
Notes to Chapters247
Works Cited269
Index286
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