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by: Donald E. Stanford
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.5209
EAN: 9780874131970
ISBN: 0874131979
Label: University of Delaware Press
Manufacturer: University of Delaware Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 283
Publication Date: 1983-03
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Sales Rank: 2530817
Studio: University of Delaware Press
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An assessment of the literary value of the experimentalist movement in Anglo-American poetry. Stanford concludes that the revolutionary movement will pass into history as an interesting, provocative, and sometimes brilliant deviation from the main line of poetry in English.
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Rating: - A Must for Studying the "Great" Early Modern Poets
So you think the critics give unqualified adoration to our early moderns? Think again. Stanford, in elegant, tight, perfectly clear prose tells the story of the revolution in poetry at the opening of the 20th century from a different point of view, that of the Wintersian formalists. These are the followers and students of the great poet and critic Yvor Winters, whose radically neo-classical views cause a storm of debate in the first half of the century. (See my reviews of Winters books at ... Read More
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