How did poetry survive? [electronic resource] : the making of modern American verse / John Timberman Newcomb.
Publication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2012.Description: xi, 338 p. : illISBN:- 9780252036798 (hardcover alk. paper)
- 9780252093906 (e-book)
- Making of modern American verse
- American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Modernism (Literature) -- United States
- Poetry -- Authorship -- Psychological aspects
- Poets, American -- 20th century -- Psychology
- Social change in literature
- Social conflict in literature
- City and town life in literature
- Technology in literature
- 811/.5209 23
- PS310.M57 N488 2012eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-326) and index.
Introduction. A modernism of the city -- Inventing the new verse -- American poetry on the brink, 1905-1912 -- Poetry's opening door : Harriet Monroe and American modernism -- Young, blithe, and whimsical : the avant-gardism of the masses -- There is always others : experimental verse and "ulterior social result" -- Volunteers of America, 1917 : the seven arts and the Great War -- Keys to the city -- Gutter and skyline : the new verse and the metropolitan cityscape -- Footprints of the 20th century : American skyscrapers, modern poems -- Subway fare : toward a poetics of rapid transit.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.