How Did Poetry Survive?: The Making of Modern American Verse

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How Did Poetry Survive? Newcomb_How_text.indd 1 12/15/11 4:06 PM Newcomb_How_text.indd 2 12/15/11 4:06 PM How Did Poetry Survive? The Making of Modern American Verse john timberman newcomb university of illinois press Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield Newcomb_How_text.indd 3 12/15/11 4:06 PM © 2012 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America c 5 4 3 2 1 ∞ This book is printed on acid-free paper. A companion anthology containing the full text of all the poems referred to in this book is available through the University of Illinois Library’s scholarly digital repository, the Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS), at http://hdl.handle.net/2142/26460. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Newcomb, John Timberman. How did poetry survive? : the making of modern American verse / John Timberman Newcomb. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-252-03679-8 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-252-09390-6 (e-book) 1. American poetry—20th century—History and criticism. 2. Modernism (Literature)—United States. 3. Poetry—Authorship—Psychological aspects. 4. Poets, American—20th century—Psychology. 5. Social change in literature. 6. Social conflict in literature. 7. City and town life in literature. 8. Technology in literature. I. Title. II. Title: Making of modern American verse. PS310.M57N488   2011 811'.5209—dc23   2011027792 Newcomb_How_text.indd 4 12/15/11 4:06 PM To the memory of my parents Charles Elwyn Newcomb (1909–86) Jane Ann Timberman Newcomb (1920–2005) and always to Lori Newcomb_How_text.indd 5 12/15/11 4:06 PM Newcomb_How_text.indd 6 12/15/11 4:06 PM ...