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The modern poet : poetry, academia, and knowledge since the 1750s / Robert Crawford.

By: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2001Description: vi, 296 p. ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
ISBN:
  • 0198186770
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 821.009/C85
LOC classification:
  • PR502 .C83 2001
Other classification:
  • CAS
Online resources:
Contents:
1. The Birth of the Modern Poet -- 2. Acts of Judgement: Making a National Body of Poetry -- 3. Scholar-Gypsies -- 4. Modernist Cybernetics and the Poetry of Knowledge -- 5. Men, Women, and American Classrooms -- Coda: The Poet's Work.
Summary: Addressed to all readers of poetry, this is a book about the poet's role throughout the last three centuries. The Modern Poet shows how many successive generations of poets across the English-speaking world have had to collaborate and to battle with the culture of the universities.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The Birth of the Modern Poet -- 2. Acts of Judgement: Making a National Body of Poetry -- 3. Scholar-Gypsies -- 4. Modernist Cybernetics and the Poetry of Knowledge -- 5. Men, Women, and American Classrooms -- Coda: The Poet's Work.

Addressed to all readers of poetry, this is a book about the poet's role throughout the last three centuries. The Modern Poet shows how many successive generations of poets across the English-speaking world have had to collaborate and to battle with the culture of the universities.

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