Newcomb, John Timberman.

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.


Electronic books.

PS310.M57 / N488 2012

811/.5209