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Author:

Newcomb, John Timberman.

Title:

Would poetry disappear? : American verse and the crisis of modernity / John Timberman Newcomb.

Publisher:

Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xxix, 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
American poetry--Theory, etc.--Theory, etc.
Poetry--Psychological aspects.--Psychological aspects.
Poets, American--20th century--Psychology.
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
Anxiety in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-285) and index.

Contents:

Looking backward from 1890: antimodernity in Canonical American poetry -- Invasion of the Tinsel Ryhmesters: poetry, mass culture, "nineteen hundred and now" -- Perished celebrities and secret doors: modern verse as waste paper -- "Tell us why you play!": young poets of the 1890s -- Business of modern verse.

ISBN:

9780814290354 (CD Rom)
0814290353 (CD Rom)
9780814251249 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0814251242 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814209585 (alk. paper)
0814209580 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53315171

LCCN:

2003023446

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)