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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crawford, Robert, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry, Modern--History and criticism.

Poetry, Modern.

Physical Description:

vi, 296 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

Addressed to all readers of poetry, this is a wide-ranging book about the poet's role throughout the last three centuries. It argues that a conception of the poets as both primitive and sophisticated emerged in the 1750s. Whether considering Ossian and the Romantics, Victorian scholar-gipsies, Modernist poetries of knowledge, or contemporary poetry in Britain, Ireland, and America, The Modern Poet shows how many successive generations of poets have needed to collaborate and to battle with academia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0198186770

OCLC:

59522178