How did poetry survive? the making of modern American verse / [electronic resource] :
Making of modern American verse
John Timberman Newcomb.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2012.
- xi, 338 p. : ill.
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. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780252093906 (electronic bk.)
American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century Modernism (Literature)--United States. Poetry--Authorship--Psychological aspects. Poets, American--Psychology.--20th century Social change in literature. Social conflict in literature. City and town life in literature. Technology in literature.