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The Advocates of Poetry: A Reader of American Poet-Critics of the Modernist Era Hardback - 1996
by R. S. Gwynn
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- Title The Advocates of Poetry: A Reader of American Poet-Critics of the Modernist Era
- Author R. S. Gwynn
- Binding Hardback
- Condition New
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville
- Date November 1996
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9781557284266
- ISBN 9781557284266 / 1557284261
- Weight 1.31 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 9.44 x 6.32 x 1 in (23.98 x 16.05 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects American poetry - 20th century - History and, Poetics - History - 20th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96022484
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.509
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From the rear cover
Like no other period in American history, the twentieth century has produced a great flourishing of critics who not only wrote poetry, but also published criticism dealing directly with the text and aesthetics of poems. Beginning with John Crowe Ransom's "Wanted: An Ontological Critic" and closing with John Ciardi's "How Does a Poem Mean?", R. S. Gwynn has assembled many of the pivotal essays written by these poet-critics over the last fifty years, some long out of print. From the pens of a dozen authors, such as Robert Penn Warren, Louise Bogan, Allen Tate, Delmore Schwartz, and Randall Jarrell, the essays were written in an atmosphere of practicality. It was a time when critical readings of poetry elucidated the poem rather than the external ideologies and theories of the critic, when criticism was accessible to the educated, common reader.