The Modern Poet Poetry, Academia, and Knowledge since the 1750s

by Crawford, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780198186779
• ISBN10: 0198186770
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-18
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Robert Crawford is Professor of Modern Scottish Literature at the University of St Andrews, and author of four volumes of poetry and four books of criticism. He is co-editor (with Simon Armitage) of The Penguin Book of Poetry from Britain and Ireland since 1945.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	x
Introduction	1	(29)
The Birth of the Modern Poet	30	(40)
Acts of Judgement: Making a National Body of Poetry	70	(43)
Scholar-Gypsies	113	(57)
Modernist Cybernetics and the Poetry of Knowledge	170	(53)
Men, Women, and American Classrooms	223	(44)
Coda: The Poet's Work	267	(18)
Index	285