Mary Barnard, American Imagist / Sarah Barnsley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnsley, Sarah, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Barnard, Mary--Criticism and interpretation.

Barnard, Mary.

Barnard, Mary, 1909-2001.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

Physical Description:

xx, 176 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2013]

Summary:

"Uncovers a new chapter in the story of American modernist poetry"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1 "Spare but Musical": The Poetry of Mary Barnard 1

Chapter 2 Late Imagism 23

2.1 "The Only Really Worthwhile Piece of Poetry Criticism I Had Ever Read": Pound's Imagism 23

2.2 Barnard's Imagist Local 27

2.3 "Sand Is the Beginning and the End/of Our Dominion": Barnard, H.D., and the Gender of Imagism 36

2.4 "We Can't Get to the World Hard Enough or Fast Enough... We Just Must Write": Barnard, Williams, and American Imagism 51

Chapter 3 "A Would-Be Sappho" 59

3.1 Sappho and the Imagists 59

3.2 Barnard's Sapphic Imagism 65

3.3 Barnard's Sapphic-American Modernism 70

Chapter 4 "A New Way of Measuring Verse" 93

4.1 Barnard and Pound: An ABC of Metrics 93

4.2 The Weighted Syllable 103

4.3 "A Well-Conceived Form within which Modification May Exist": Barnard, Williams, and the Question of American Measure 107

4.4 "An Idiom AND a Swing": Sappho; A New Translation 117

Chapter 5 "A Bright Particular Excellence": The Achievement of Mary Barnard 127.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438448558

1438448554

9781438448565

1438448562

OCLC:

824670836