Helen Carr
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199545810
- eISBN:
- 9780191803475
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199545810.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter discusses the history of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, one of the best known of ‘little magazines’ of literary modernism, perhaps the one that encapsulates the centrality of small ...
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This chapter discusses the history of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, one of the best known of ‘little magazines’ of literary modernism, perhaps the one that encapsulates the centrality of small magazines in modernism's formation and dissemination. Founded in Chicago in 1912 by Harriet Monroe, and acquiring for its first six years the dynamic if combustible services of Ezra Pound as foreign correspondent, it devoted itself to promoting what Monroe described as the ‘new poetry’. During its early years it published a range of young, experimental, and often soon to be well-known poets from both sides of the Atlantic, including all the major modernist poets, frequently playing an invaluable role in their emergence and success as writers.Less
This chapter discusses the history of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, one of the best known of ‘little magazines’ of literary modernism, perhaps the one that encapsulates the centrality of small magazines in modernism's formation and dissemination. Founded in Chicago in 1912 by Harriet Monroe, and acquiring for its first six years the dynamic if combustible services of Ezra Pound as foreign correspondent, it devoted itself to promoting what Monroe described as the ‘new poetry’. During its early years it published a range of young, experimental, and often soon to be well-known poets from both sides of the Atlantic, including all the major modernist poets, frequently playing an invaluable role in their emergence and success as writers.
Mike Chasar
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231158657
- eISBN:
- 9780231530774
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231158657.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
This book casts American poetry as an everyday phenomenon consumed and created by a vast range of readers and shows how American poetry in the first half of the twentieth century helped set the stage ...
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This book casts American poetry as an everyday phenomenon consumed and created by a vast range of readers and shows how American poetry in the first half of the twentieth century helped set the stage for the dynamics of popular culture and mass media today. The book draws on a diverse range of unconventional sources, including poetry scrapbooks, old-time radio show recordings, advertising verse, corporate archives and Hallmark greeting cards. It argues that poetry, in the first half of the twentieth century, was part and parcel of American popular culture, and that it spread rapidly at that time as the consumer economy expanded and companies exploited its profit-making potential. The book also shows how poetry offered ordinary Americans creative, emotional, political and intellectual modes of expression, whether through scrapbooking, participation in radio programs or poetry contests. Re-envisioning the uses of twentieth-century poetry, the book provides the reader with a better understanding of the innovations of modernist and avant-garde poets and the American reading public's sophisticated powers of feeling and perception.Less
This book casts American poetry as an everyday phenomenon consumed and created by a vast range of readers and shows how American poetry in the first half of the twentieth century helped set the stage for the dynamics of popular culture and mass media today. The book draws on a diverse range of unconventional sources, including poetry scrapbooks, old-time radio show recordings, advertising verse, corporate archives and Hallmark greeting cards. It argues that poetry, in the first half of the twentieth century, was part and parcel of American popular culture, and that it spread rapidly at that time as the consumer economy expanded and companies exploited its profit-making potential. The book also shows how poetry offered ordinary Americans creative, emotional, political and intellectual modes of expression, whether through scrapbooking, participation in radio programs or poetry contests. Re-envisioning the uses of twentieth-century poetry, the book provides the reader with a better understanding of the innovations of modernist and avant-garde poets and the American reading public's sophisticated powers of feeling and perception.
