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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Twentieth-century poets"”.
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Poetry in process: The compositional practices of D.H. Lawrence, Dylan Thomas and Philip Larkin
… compare the 'compositional practices' of three twentieth century poets in order to come closer to understanding the means by which poems are written. One conclusion which is perhaps inevitable from such a comparative study as this is that there is not a single approach to writing a poem. Each …
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Unidentified Verbal Objects: Contemporary French Poetry, Intermedia, and Narrative
… of the 1980s to the present. Whereas earlier twentieth century poets often shunned common speech, poets today seek instead to appropriate, adapt, and reorganize a wide variety of contemporary discourses. Narrative also reemerges both in hybridized writing fusing prose and verse and in …
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The Poet's Place: Individuality and Collectivity in Modern American Poetry, 1910-1940
<p>This dissertation examines how modern American poets such as H.D., T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, and others created new modes of lyricism, ones based not on privacy and the celebration of an individual self but on community, collectivity, and chorality. In examining the development of these new …
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… aspects of form in relation to three distinct twentieth century poets: Robert Hass, W.S. Merwin, and W.H. Auden. I am most interested in how particular formal decisions shape meaning and value in poetry. My aesthetic approach here primarily dwells on what Helen Vendler calls, "the music of what …
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The Fire Image in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
During the twentieth century poets and critics alike have paid more attention to imagery than to any other element of poetry. But this attention is only one manifestation of a great modern interest in the image. The last century has seen an ever-increasing image-consciousness in religion, …
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Ambient Lyric: Apollinaire and the Social Imaginary of Twentieth-Century US Poetry
… thesis presents a history of how poetry in the twentieth-century US became understood as a means to mediate social complexity, explored via the reception of the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Apollinaire becomes a crucial figure, I argue, because the articulation that he gives of his …