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Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s

Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s ever before, and that drop is connected with declining involvement in public life. No wonder that Meg Schoerke in ‘‘ ‘A Diminished Thing’: Frost’s Place in Contemporary Poetry’’ laments that Frost is not read as much as he once was, either in the academy or out. No wonder that Mark W. Van Wienen produced an anthology of poetry and verse from the First World War that includes polemics from all sides of the political spectrum, inviting us to look at an energetic, popular literature long ignored by critics who prefer to look at the more complex, aesthetically rich artifacts of high modernism. No wonder that Eileen Gregory’s ‘‘H.D.’s Heterodoxy: The Lyric as a Site of Resistance’’ tries to invest the work of this high modernist with the same political energy that Van Wienen finds in broadside polemics of the same period. No matter which position each of us takes, the implications are huge not only for our profession but for America’s public life. I suspect that the concern shown in this year’s work will expand in years to come, especially as we digest the NEA report. i Anthologies Van Wienen’s Rendezvous with Death: American Poems of the Great http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Literary Scholarship Duke University Press

Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s

Camfield, Gregg
American Literary Scholarship , Volume 2003 (1) – Jan 1, 2005
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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2005 by Duke University Press
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0065-9142
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10.1215/00659142-2003-1-393
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ever before, and that drop is connected with declining involvement in public life. No wonder that Meg Schoerke in ‘‘ ‘A Diminished Thing’: Frost’s Place in Contemporary Poetry’’ laments that Frost is not read as much as he once was, either in the academy or out. No wonder that Mark W. Van Wienen produced an anthology of poetry and verse from the First World War that includes polemics from all sides of the political spectrum, inviting us to look at an energetic, popular literature long ignored by critics who prefer to look at the more complex, aesthetically rich artifacts of high modernism. No wonder that Eileen Gregory’s ‘‘H.D.’s Heterodoxy: The Lyric as a Site of Resistance’’ tries to invest the work of this high modernist with the same political energy that Van Wienen finds in broadside polemics of the same period. No matter which position each of us takes, the implications are huge not only for our profession but for America’s public life. I suspect that the concern shown in this year’s work will expand in years to come, especially as we digest the NEA report. i Anthologies Van Wienen’s Rendezvous with Death: American Poems of the Great

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