The modern poet :

Crawford, Robert, 1959-

The modern poet : poetry, academia, and knowledge since the 1750s / Robert Crawford. - vi, 296 p. ; 23 cm.

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.

0198186770

2001277530

GBA1-X7118


English poetry--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Poetry--Study and teaching--English-speaking countries.
American poetry--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.


Great Britain--Intellectual life.
United States--Intellectual life.

PR502 / .C83 2001

821.009/C85