Late Modeism and the Poetics of Place

by: Neal Alexander (Author)

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Publication Date: 30 Jun. 2022

Language: English

Print Length: 288 pages

ISBN-10: 1474484409

ISBN-13: 9781474484404

Book Description

This monograph offers a decisive reappraisal of both the literary history and the literary geography of Anglophone modeism by focusing attention on poetry from both sides of the Atlantic. Where recent studies of late modeism tend to regard it as an inter-war or mid-century phenomenon, this book contends that the period 1945 1975 marks a major phase of experiment and achievement in late modeist poetry. The author argues that what distinguishes the work of many late modeist poets (such as Gwendolyn Brooks, Basil Bunting, W. S. Graham, David Jones, Lorine Niedecker and Charles Olson) during this period is its multi-layered poetics of place. In part, he suggests, this is due to the engagement of individual writers with contemporary developments in human and physical geography. It is also manifest in the tendency of late modeist poets to foreground the cultural significance of regional and non-metropolitan places in their texts.
This monograph offers a decisive reappraisal of both the literary history and the literary geography of Anglophone modeism by focusing attention on poetry from both sides of the Atlantic. Where recent studies of late modeism tend to regard it as an inter-war or mid-century phenomenon, this book contends that the period 1945 1975 marks a major phase of experiment and achievement in late modeist poetry. The author argues that what distinguishes the work of many late modeist poets (such as Gwendolyn Brooks, Basil Bunting, W. S. Graham, David Jones, Lorine Niedecker and Charles Olson) during this period is its multi-layered poetics of place. In part, he suggests, this is due to the engagement of individual writers with contemporary developments in human and physical geography. It is also manifest in the tendency of late modeist poets to foreground the cultural significance of regional and non-metropolitan places in their texts.

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