The Modern Poet: Poetry, Academia, and Knowledge Since the 1750s

by Robert Crawford

Book Overview

Addressed to all readers of poetry, this is a wide-ranging book about the poet's role throughout the last three centuries. It argues that a conception of the poets as both primitive and sophisticated emerged in the 1750s. Whether considering Ossian and the Romantics, Victorian scholar-gipsies, Modernist poetries of knowledge, or contemporary poetry in Britain, Ireland, and America, The Modern Poet shows how many successive generations of poets have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199269327
• ISBN13: 9780199269327
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"