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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (3): 417–423.
Published: 01 September 2015
...John Lowney Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s African American Poem , by Marcoux Jean-Philippe . Lanham, MD : Lexington Books , 2012 . 233 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2015 In the introduction to this compelling account of 1960s African American jazz poetry...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (4): 657–665.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Michael Coyle The Modern Portrait Poem: From Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ezra Pound , by Dickey Frances , University of Virginia Press , 2012 . 260 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2013 Review
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The Modern Portrait Poem: From Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (4): 414–436.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Ryan Hibbett Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 m
Imagining Ted Hughes:
Authorship, Authenticity,
and the Symbolic Work of Collected Poems
Ryan Hibbett
T e d Hughes’s recently published Collected Poems runs 1331 pages, the
table of contents alone taking 29. It sits...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2019) 65 (4): 369–392.
Published: 01 December 2019
... to crosscurrents in enduring and evolving systems. Heather McHugh’s poems invite us to read not for the solace of masterable meaning but for the chance and risk of aleatory encounter and its unpredictable elaboration. Even in elegy, traditionally poetry’s moment of discursive mastery, her poems give full play...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (3): 336–366.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Lauryl Tucker Copyright © Hofstra University 2014 Lauryl Tucker
Progeny and Parody: Narcissus and Echo
in Stevie Smith’s Poems
Lauryl Tucker
Probably to their credit, critics of Stevie Smith have not labored
long in attempting to align her with a particular critical agenda...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 223–246.
Published: 01 June 2018
... the poetic revival” ( [1963] 1998 , 231), Smith’s 70-page treatment goes on to describe Spectrist poetry as mere “nonsense” (1961, 18). The Spectra poems that deal with the Great War escape Smith’s attention, for example, and he is content to exploit the episode as a stick with which to beat the poetic...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 295–322.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Sarah Berry Derek Walcott’s Harry Dernier and Sylvia Plath’s Three Women , two little-known, midcentury radio plays, cultivate characters who sound like the speaker of a lyric poem, even as they foreground the invisible bodies behind the voices. In offering us voices that both invite and obstruct...
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Materialities of Abstraction: Jessie Dismorr’s Poems , Transatlantic Modernism, and Feminist Poetics
Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (2): 191–214.
Published: 01 June 2021
....” But Dismorr is more than just hybrid. If even as Sickert presents the heaviness of paint, in immersing us in the materialities of abstraction, Dismorr’s art foregrounds not only the materials of art but also the social relations that facilitate the movement and circulation of aesthetic production— Poems...
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Published: 01 June 2021
Figure 1 Cover of Poems ( Dismorr 1918 ).
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Published: 01 June 2021
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (1): 31–56.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Shawn Normandin The title of John Ashbery’s 1965 poem “Clepsydra” alludes to Charles Baudelaire’s “L’Horloge,” from Les Fleurs du mal , and reading Ashbery’s poem as a response to “L’Horloge” helps refine our understanding of his place in literary history, a process this essay pursues...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (4): 436–459.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Frances Leviston The impact of Elizabeth Bishop’s maternal loss on the symbolic order of her poems is well-established, but the ways in which Bishop draws on literary tradition in exploring that loss have received less attention. This essay offers a close reading of “The Bight” that demonstrates...
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“My Trespass Vision”: Disability, Sexuality, and Nationality in Hart Crane’s Versions of “The Idiot”
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (1): 56–74.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Paul Bradley Bellew American modernist Hart Crane’s poem “The Idiot” details the poet’s real-life encounters with a young man with a cognitive disability. Beginning in 1926, Crane worked on the poem through different versions through letters, manuscripts, and magazine publications until about 1932...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 385–404.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Heather Cass White This essay presents the textual history of Moore’s “lost” poem “Pigeons” and argues for the poem’s importance in unifying two major strains of Moore criticism: that pertaining to her Protestant faith, and that pertaining to her careful reading of Darwin. The essay suggests...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 191–222.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Kathryn Van Wert This essay explores Elizabeth Bishop’s use of war and imperialism to demonstrate the power—and inherently political nature—of poetic discourse. In her rarely discussed “Little Exercise” (1946), a poem Bishop wrote while living near a military base in Key West, Florida...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (4): 365–388.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Birger Vanwesenbeeck In the fall of 1954, enrolled in an undergraduate intermediate German course, Sylvia Plath undertook a translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s 1908 poem “Ein Prophet.” Though this translation has received only scant attention from scholars, it represents Plath’s first poetic...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 431–454.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Jeffrey Blevins Are T. S. Eliot’s notes on The Waste Land a scholarly resource or a literary hoax? This oft-repeated question gets to the heart of the poem, which thrives on its allusions, whether seriously or cynically. However, scholars have largely passed over the notes’ (and the poem’s...
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