Inscription And Modernity

"Inscription and Modernity: from Wordsworth to Mandelstam charts the vicissitudes of inscriptive poetry produced in the midst of the great and catastrophic political, social, and intellectual upheavals of the late eighteenth to mid-twentieth centuries." "Focusing on three revolutionary historical conjunctures (post-1789 in England and Germany; the years 1830, 1848, and 1871 in France; and the Russian situation from 1905 to 1917 and beyond), John MacKay discusses the improbable persistence of the inscriptive mode in light of the way the poems legitimate themselves both by imagining new configurations of audience (as part of a project of "aesthetic education") and by offering some renewed contact with the natural world."--BOOK JACKET.