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Modernist Figures: Volume 1: New Poetries

Modernist Figures: Volume 1: New Poetries

Nicholls, Peter
Hegelmeyer, Chad

Hardcover

Series: Best of Scholars and Scholarship in the Humanities

Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 3, 2026

ISBN10: 3838221095
ISBN13: 9783838221090
Publisher: Ibidem Press
Published: Nov 3 2026
Pages: 430
Weight: 1.46
Height: 1.13 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Modernist Figures brings together three decades of Peter Nicholls's scholarship on poetry and poetics, tracing how modernism redefined literary form, skepticism, and cultural authority. The collection ranges across American, British, and European traditions, Volume I (New Poetries) beginning with Melville's transatlantic encounters with skepticism and cynicism, and then repositioning Swinburne as the creator of a distinctively modern poetics. Essays on Leopardi, Mallarmé, Ungaretti and Valéry develop the theme of foreignness in the new poetry, while later pieces chart how lyric both sustained and was unsettled by modernist innovations in Eliot, Pound, Oppen, and Howe. New Poetries explores divergent American modernisms through Stein and Hemingway, the centrality of allusion in modernist writing, and the complex afterlives of Surrealism in England and in America (the poetry of Lorine Niedecker). Later essays juxtapose metaphysical and materialist strains of modernism, considering poetic presence in Oppen, Celan, and Bonnefoy, and analyzing Mina Loy's feminist lexicophilia alongside Pound's evolving aesthetics.

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