A Coherent Splendor
The American Poetic Renaissance, 1910–1950
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- Author: Albert Gelpi
- Date Published: September 1990
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521386876
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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
See more reviews'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, Choice
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- Date Published: September 1990
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521386876
- length: 496 pages
- dimensions: 234 x 155 x 27 mm
- weight: 0.72kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: the Janus-face of Romanticism and Modernism
1. Robert Frost and John Crowe Ransom: Diptych of Ironists, the Woodsman and the Chevalier
2. Wallace Stevens: World as Mundo, Mundo as world
3. T. S. Eliot: The lady between the yew trees
4. Ezra Pound: Between Kung and Eleusis
5. H. D.: Helen in Bethlehem, Hilda in Egypt
6. William Carlos Williams: Mother-Son and Paterson
7. Allen Tate and Hart Crane: Diptych with Demons and Angels Coda
Yvor Winters and Robinson Jeffers: The Janus-face of anti-modernism.
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