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

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: A Modernism of the City 1 Part I: Inventing the New Verse 1. American Poetry on the Brink, 1905–12 9 2. Poetry’s Opening Door: Harriet Monroe and American Modernism 26 3. Young, Blithe, and Whimsical: The Avant-Gardism of The Masses 54 4. There Is Always Others: Experimental Verse and “Ulterior Social Result” 79 5. Volunteers of America, 1917: The Seven Arts and the Great War 118 Part II: Keys to the City 6. Gutter and Skyline: The New Verse and the Metropolitan Cityscape 147 7. Footprints of the Twentieth Century: American Skyscrapers, Modern Poems 180 8. Subway Fare: Toward a Poetics of Rapid Transit 217 Notes 263 Bibliography 303 Index 327 Newcomb_How_text.indd 7 12/15/11 4:06 PM Newcomb_How_text.indd 8 12/15/11 4:06 PM ...