The Poetry of Disturbance

The Discomforts of Postwar American Poetry

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American, Nonfiction, History
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Author: David Bergman ISBN: 9781316289389
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: June 30, 2015
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: David Bergman
ISBN: 9781316289389
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: June 30, 2015
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

In The Poetry of Disturbance, David Bergman argues that post-war poetry underwent a significant if subtle shift in emphasis, moving from the modernist concern with the poem as a visual text to one that was chiefly oral in nature. The resulting change was disturbing, especially for those brought up on the principles of high modernism. This new stress on orality implied a shift in the economy of the poem, away from the austerity of language advocated by Pound and Eliot to a style that conveyed freedom, expansiveness, and an innovative directness.

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In The Poetry of Disturbance, David Bergman argues that post-war poetry underwent a significant if subtle shift in emphasis, moving from the modernist concern with the poem as a visual text to one that was chiefly oral in nature. The resulting change was disturbing, especially for those brought up on the principles of high modernism. This new stress on orality implied a shift in the economy of the poem, away from the austerity of language advocated by Pound and Eliot to a style that conveyed freedom, expansiveness, and an innovative directness.

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