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.
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