The Modern Poet Poetry, Academia, and Knowledge since the 1750s
, by Crawford, RobertNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780198186779 | 0198186770
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 10/18/2001
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 America, The Modern Poet shows how many successive generations of poets have needed to collaborate and to battle with academia.