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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 January 2010
      29 January 1988
      ISBN:
      9780511627613
      9780521345330
      9780521386876
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511627613
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.88kg, 496 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.72kg, 496 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies
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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 Source: Choice

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