A history of modern poetry

著者

• Perkins, David

書誌事項

A history of modern poetry

David Perkins

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1976-1987

• [v. 1] : cloth
• [v. 1] : pbk
• [v. 2] : cloth
• [v. 2] : pbk
• index

タイトル別名

From the 1890s to the high modernist mode

Modernism and after

注記

Other title information of [v. 1]: From the 1890s to the high modernist mode

Other title information of [v. 2]: Modernism and after

Includes index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

index ISBN 9780674399419

内容説明

The first comprehensive history of modern poetry in English from the 1890s to the 1920s, this book embraces an era of enormous creative variety--the formative period during which the Romantic traditions of the past were abandoned or transformed and a major new literature created. By the end of the period covered, "The Waste Land," Lawrence's "Birds, Beasts and Flowers," Stevens' "Harmonium," and Pound's "Draft of XVI Cantos" had been published, and the first post-Eliot generation of poets was beginning to emerge.More than a hundred poets are treated in this volume, and many more are noticed in passing. Mr. Perkins discusses each poet and type of poetry with keen critical appreciation. He traces opposed and evolving assumptions about poetry, and considers the effects on poetry of its changing audiences, of premises and procedures in literary criticism, of the publishing outlets poets could hope to use, and the interrelations of poetry with developments in the other arts--the novel, painting, film, music--as well as in social, political, and intellectual life. The poetry of the United States and that of the British Isles are seen in interplay rather than separately.This book is an important contribution to the understanding of modern literature. At the same time, it throws new light on the cultural history of both America and Britain in the twentieth century.

巻冊次

[v. 1] : pbk ISBN 9780674399457

内容説明

The first comprehensive history of modern poetry in English from the 1890s to the 1920s, this book embraces an era of enormous creative variety-the formative period during which the Romantic traditions of the past were abandoned or transformed and a major new literature created. By the end of the period covered, Eliot's The Waste Land, Lawrence's Birds, Beasts and Flowers, Stevens's Harmonium, and Pound's Draft of XVI Cantos had been published, and the first post-Eliot generation of poets was beginning to emerge. More than a hundred poets are treated in this volume, and many more are noticed in passing. David Perkins discusses each poet and type of poetry with keen critical appreciation. He traces opposed and evolving assumptions about poetry, and considers the effects on poetry of its changing audiences, of premises and procedures in literary criticism, of the publishing outlets poets could hope to use, and the interrelations of poetry with developments in the other arts-the novel, painting, film, music-as well as in social, political, and intellectual life. The poetry of the United States and that of the British Isles are seen in interplay rather than separately. This book is an important contribution to the understanding of modern literature. At the same time, it throws new light on the cultural history of both America and Britain in the twentieth century.

目次

PART ONE: POETRY AROUND THE TURN OF THE CENTURY 1. BRITISH POETRY IN THE 1890s: INTRODUCTION The Romantic Legacy. British Modes and Poets of the Decade. The Literary Milieu. 2. THE VICTORIAN TRADITION AND THE CELTIC TWILIGHT Sir William Watson. Stephen Phillips and "Michael Field." Alice Meynell. Francis Thompson. The Celtic Twilight. Yeats. William Sharp. 3. ARS VICTRIX: THE LONDON AVANT-GARDE Character of the Avant-Garde. L'Art pour l'art. Ernest Dowson. Lionel Johnson. The Decadence. Wratislaw. Barlas. Wilde's Salome. Symbolism. Yeats. Symons' The Symbolist Movement in Literature. Impressionism and Arthur Symons. Pater. 4. THE NARRATIVE PROTEST Reactions Against the Poetry of Ars Victrix. Narrative Poets. Rudyard Kipling. John Davidson. Chesterton. Noyes. Masefield. 5. THE AMERICAN MILIEU, 1890-1912 The Isolation of American Poets. Poetic Innocence. Preoccupation with England. The Recoil from Contemporary America. The Poetry Market. 6. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE MODERN MOVEMENT IN AMERICA The Genteel Tradition. Santayana. Stickney. Lodge. Moody. Reese. Tabb. Reactions Against the Genteel Mode. The Vagabond Theme. Hovey and Carman. Edwin Markham: Poetry of Social Protest. Popular Entertainers and Newspaper Poets. Riley. Field. Crawford. Stephen Crane. Edwin Arlington Robinson. PART TWO: POETRY IN RAPPORT WITH A PUBLIC 7. TRANSITIONS AND PREMISES The Dominant Mode. Poets and Schools. 8. THOMAS HARDY His Life. General Character of His Poetry. Style and Form. Tentative and Opposed Responses. The Philosophical Pessimist. The Sense of Vista. A Poet of Nature. The Dynasts. His Influence on Later Poets. 9. CRAFTSMEN OF THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE AGREEABLE General Characteristics of the Mode. Robert Bridges. Laurence Binyon. Sturge Moore. Walter de la Mare. Trevelyan, Hewlett, Belloc, and Flecker. Abercrombie and Bottomley. A. E. Housman. 10. THE GEORGIAN POETS The Georgian Anthologies. Rupert Brooke. Georgian Realism. Gibson. The Georgian Countryside. Edward Thomas. W. H. Davies. Edmund Blunden. Ralph Hodgson. W. J. Turner. The Georgian Compromise. 11. ROBERT FROST His Life. Frost and the Age. The Spoken Language. Dramatic Characterization. Poetry in the Familiar. Narrative Elements. The Personality of the Speaker. Unsaying the Romantics. Frostian Irony. 12. THE IRISH SCENE The Irish Milieu. Patriotic Verse. George Russell. Reaction Against the Celtic Twilight. James Stephens. Synge. The Folk Movement. Colum, Campbell, and F. R. Higgins. 13. POETRY OF WORLD WAR I American Poets and the War. English Poets: The First Phase. Graves. Blunden. The Later Phase. Sassoon. Owen. Rosenberg. Part Three: Popular Modernism 14. THE NEW POETRY OF AMERICA Phases of the Modern Movement. The Reaction against the Genteel Mode. The Widening of Subject Matter. The Proliferation of Formal Experiment. The Spoken Language. Discontinuous Composition. Free Verse. The New Audience and Publishers. Little Magazines. The Contemporary Perception of Groups and Movements. 15. IMAGISM The Imagist Movement. The Imagist Doctrine. The Imagist Poem. Aldington. H.D. Fletcher. Amy Lowell. Sir Herbert Read. 16. POETRY FOR A DEMOCRACY Vachel Lindsay. Edgar Lee Masters. Carl Sandburg. John V. A. Weaver. Lola Ridge. 17. CONSERVATIVE AND REGIONAL POETS OF AMERICA Sara Teasdale. Ridgeley Torrence. Donald Evans. Adelaide Crapsey. Edna St. Vincent Millay. Elinor Wylie. Robert Hillyer. Conrad Aiken. The Benets. Regional Poetry. 18. BLACK POETS OF AMERICA: THE FIRST PHASE Types and History of Black Poetry. Poets of the Turn of the Century. Paul Lawrence Dunbar. W. S. Braithwaite. Fenton Johnson. Claude McKay. Jean Toomer. Countie Cullen. Langston Hughes. James Weldon Johnson. Sterling Brown. 19. BRITISH POETRY AFTER THE WAR, 1918-1928 Modernist and Traditional Modes. Beginnings of the New Criticism. Richard Church. A. E. Coppard. Andrew Young. Robert Graves. Wheels. Edith Sitwell. Aldous Huxley. Harold Monro. Edgell Rickword. D. H. Lawrence. PART FOUR: THE BEGINNINGS OF THE HIGH MODERNIST MODE 20. EZRA POUND: THE EARLY CAREER The High Modernist Mode. Pound before Imagism. Pound's Modernization: The First Phase. Ford Maddox Hueffer. T. E. Hulme. Efficient Style. Fenollosa's "Essay on the Chinese Written Character." Vorticism. Cathay. Lustra. Homage to Sextus Propertius. Pound's Modernization: The Second Phase. The Ur Cantos. Eliot and Joyce. The Fourth Canto. Douglas and the Economic System. "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley." The Cantos. Later Life. 21. T. S. ELIOT: THE EARLY CAREER Early Life. The Encounter with Laforgue. England and Marriage. A Growing Reputation. The Waste Land. The Urban Setting. Leitmotifs. The "Mythical Method." Allusion. The Condition of Man. Eliot's Criticism. Later Life. 22. THE NEW YORK AVANT-GARDE: STEVENS AND WILLIAMS TO THE EARLY 1920s AND MARIANNE MOORE Others. Alfred Kreymborg. Stieglitz. The Armory Show. A Compressed Idiom. Mina Loy. Maxwell Bodenheim. Wallace Stevens. William Carlos Williams. Marianne Moore. 23. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Early Life. His Father. Occult Lore. Symbolism and Reverie. Irish Nationalism. Maud Gonne. The Rhymers' Club. Remaking a Self, 1899-1914. The Abbey Theatre. A New Level of Achievement, 1914-1928. Ezra Pound and Noh Drama. A Vision. A System of Symbols. Yeatsian Talk. Thinking in Antitheses. Yeats's Last Decade. Yeats and the Modern Movements in Poetry. Acknoeledgments Index

巻冊次

[v. 2] : cloth ISBN 9780674399464

内容説明

There have been many books on early modernist poetry, not so many on its various sequels, and still fewer on the currents and cross-currents of poetry since World War II. Until now there has been no single comprehensive history of British and American poetry throughout the half century from the mid-1920s to the recent past. This David Perkins is uniquely equipped to provide; only a critic as well informed as he in the whole range of twentieth-century poetry could offer a lucid, coherent, and structured account of so diverse a body of work. Perkins devotes major discussions to the later careers of the first Modernist poets, such as Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams, and to their immediate followers in the United States, E. E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, and Hart Crane; to W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, and the period style of the 1930s; to the emergence of the New Criticism and of a poetry reflecting its tenets in William Empson, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, John Berryman, and Robert Lowell, and to the reaction against this style; to postwar Great Britain from Philip Larkin and the "Movement" in the 1950s to Ted Hughes, Charles Tomlinson, and Geoffrey Hill; to the theory and style of "open form" in Charles Olson and Robert Duncan; to Allen Ginsberg and the Beat poetry of the 1960s; to the poetry of women's experience in Sylvia Plath and Adrienne Rich; to the work of Black poets from Robert Hayden and Gwendolyn Brooks to Amiri Baraka; and to Elizabeth Bishop, W. S. Merwin, A. R. Ammons, John Ashbery, and James Merrill. Perkins discusses some 160 poets, mentioning many others more briefly, and does not hesitate to explain, to criticize, to admire, to render judgments. Heclarifies the complex interrelations of individuals, groups, and movements and the contexts in which the poets worked: not only the predecessors and contemporaries they responded to but the journals that published them, the expectations of the audience, changing premises about poetry, the writings of critics, developments in other arts, and the momentous events of political and social history. Readers seeking guidance through the maze of postwar poetry will find the second half of the book especially illuminating.

巻冊次

[v. 2] : pbk ISBN 9780674399471

内容説明

There have been many books on early modernist poetry, not so many on its various sequels, and still fewer on the currents and cross-currents of poetry since World War II. Until now there has been no single comprehensive history of British and American poetry throughout the half century from the mid-1920s to the recent past. This David Perkins is uniquely equipped to provide; only a critic as well informed as he in the whole range of twentieth-century poetry could offer a lucid, coherent, and structured account of so diverse a body of work. Perkins devotes major discussions to the later careers of the first Modernist poets, such as Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams, and to their immediate followers in the United States, E. E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, and Hart Crane; to W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, and the period style of the 1930s; to the emergence of the New Criticism and of a poetry reflecting its tenets in William Empson, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, John Berryman, and Robert Lowell, and to the reaction against this style; to postwar Great Britain from Philip Larkin and the "Movement" in the 1950s to Ted Hughes, Charles Tomlinson, and Geoffrey Hill; to the theory and style of "open form" in Charles Olson and Robert Duncan; to Allen Ginsberg and the Beat poetry of the 1960s; to the poetry of women's experience in Sylvia Plath and Adrienne Rich; to the work of Black poets from Robert Hayden and Gwendolyn Brooks to Amiri Baraka; and to Elizabeth Bishop, W. S. Merwin, A. R. Ammons, John Ashbery, and James Merrill. Perkins discusses some 160 poets, mentioning many others more briefly, and does not hesitate to explain, to criticize, to admire, to render judgments. He clarifies the complex interrelations of individuals, groups, and movements and the contexts in which the poets worked: not only the predecessors and contemporaries they responded to but the journals that published them, the expectations of the audience, changing premises about poetry, the writings of critics, developments in other arts, and the momentous events of political and social history. Readers seeking guidance through the maze of postwar poetry will find the second half of the book especially illuminating.

目次

PART ONE. THE AGE OF HIGH MODERNISM 1 The Ascendancy of T. S. Eliot, 1925-1950 2 Eliot's Later Career "The Hollow Men" and Ash Wednesday. Four Quartets. 3 Modes of Modern Style in the United States E. E. Cummings. Archibald MacLeish. Robinson Jeffers. 4 Hart Crane "A Plate of Vibrant Mercury." The Bridge. 5 The Poetry of Critical Intelligence Sources and History of the Style. Metaphysical Wit. Samples of the Style. Laura Riding. Robert Graves. William Empson. John Crowe Ransom. Allen Tate. Yvor Winters. 6 The Period Style of the 1930s in England The Impact of Auden. Coming after the Modernists. Poetry as Thinking and Talking. The English Tradition. Freud, Marx, and Lawrence. Politics and Romantic Convention. Day-Lewis, MacNeice, and Spender. 7 W. H. Auden Auden in the 1930s. Long Poems of the 1940s. Poetry as Conversation. The Later Auden. 8 The English Romantic Revival, 1934-1945 The Beginnings of the Romantic Revival: Dylan Thomas, David Gascoyne, and George Barker. Edwin Muir. The War Years. PART TWO. THE RESURGENCE OF POUND, WILLIAMS, AND STEVENS 9 Reappraising the Modernists 10 Ezra Pound: The Cantos Components of the Texture. Ideograms. Incremental Repetition. Major Form. The Pisan Cantos. Paradiso. 11 The Impact of William Carlos Williams The Williams Lyric. The Theory of the Poem. Paterson and the Last Poems. 12 The Later Poetry of Wallace Stevens Harmonium. "Winter Devising Summer in Its Breast." The Theory of Poetry Is the Theory of Life." The Myth of a Sufficing Naturalism. The Major Poetry of the Final Phase. 13 Other Modernist Poets David Jones. Basil Bunting. David Ignatow. Louis Zukofsky and the Objectivists. PART THREE. POSTMODERNISM 14 The Postwar Period: Introduction The Concept of a Period Style. Poetry in the United States. The Development of Contemporary Poetry. 15 Robert Penn Warren, Theodore Roethke, and Elizabeth Bishop Robert Penn Warren. Minor American Poets and the Return of Romantic Values. Theodore Roethke. Elizabeth Bishop. 16 Breaking Through the New Criticism Richard Wilbur. Randall Jarrell. John Berryman. Homage to Mistress Bradstreet. The Dream Songs. 17 Robert Lowell Style as "Hardship." Life Studies. Lowell's Later Career. 18 In and Out of the Movement: The Generation of the 1950s in England The Movement. The Style of the 1950s. Orientations to an Audience. Roy Fuller, C. H. Sisson, and R. S. Thomas. Larkin and His Contemporaries. 19 English Poetry in the 1960s and 1970s Charles Tomlinson. Ted Hughes. Geoffrey Hill. Thom Gunn. 20 The Poetry of Ireland Austin Clarke, Patrick Kavanagh. Thomas Kinsella. John Montague and Michael Longley. Seamus Heaney. 21 Open Form Derivation from Pound and Williams. The Theory of Open Form. Syntax as Kinesis. Charles Olson. Robert Creeley. Denise Levertov, Edward Dorn, and Paul Blackburn. Robert Duncan. 22 Poetry in New York and San Francisco Frank O'Hara and the 'New York School." Minor Poets of San Francisco. The Countercultural Ethos. Allen Ginsberg. 23 Against "Civilization" A Shared Style. A Modal Poem. Robert Bly. James Wright. Galway Kinnell. W. S. Merwin. Gary Snyder. 24 Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Adrienne Rich Sylvia Plath. Anne Sexton. Adrienne Rich. 25 Black Poets of America Melvin Tolson. Robert Hayden. Gwendolyn Brooks. Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones). 26 Meditations of the Solitary Mind: John Ashbery and A. R. Ammons John Ashbery. The Nature of the Real. Unsaying What You Say While You Are Saying It. Reading Ashbery. A. R. Ammons. 27 The Achievement of James Merrill The Changing Light at Sandover. Merrill's Trilogy in Literary History. Readers versus the Ouija Board. 'The Book of Ephraim." Mirabell and Scripts for the Pageant. Acknowledgments Index

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• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA00613353
• ISBN:
  • 0674399412
  • 0674399455
  • 0674399463
  • 0674399471
  • 0674399412
• LCCN: 86014904
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Cambridge, Mass.
• ページ数/冊数: v.
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  • LCSH : American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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  • LCSH : English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : American poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism