The Modern Poet: Poetry, Academia, and Knowledge Since the 1750s
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The Modern Poet: Poetry, Academia, and Knowledge Since the 1750s

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Addressed to all readers of poetry, this is a wide-ranging book about the poet's role throughout the last three centuries. It argues that a conception of the poets as both primitive and sophisticated emerged in the 1750s. Whether considering Ossian and the Romantics, Victorian scholar-gipsies, Modernist poetries of knowledge, or contemporary poetry in Britain, Ireland, and...more
Hardcover, 312 pages
Published October 18th 2001 by Oxford University Press, USA
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