A survey of modernist poetry (Registro nro. 117126)

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LC control number 28014310
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Original cataloging agency UtSlPG
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title en
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100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Riding, Laura,
Dates associated with a name 1901-1991
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Title A survey of modernist poetry
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Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Salt Lake City, UT :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Project Gutenberg,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2025
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General note Release date is 2025-06-27
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Creation/production credits note Hannah Wilson, Laura Natal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
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Summary, etc. "A survey of modernist poetry" by Laura Riding and Robert Graves is a work of literary criticism written in the early 20th century. It explores why modernist poems look and read the way they do, how they challenge the “plain reader,” and what new techniques—of form, diction, punctuation, and layout—aim to achieve. The authors argue that experiment serves clarity of experience, not obscurity for its own sake, and that readers must meet the poems with more active, precise attention. The opening of the book sets up the debate between modernist innovation and the plain reader’s expectations, using E. E. Cummings as a test case. It closely reads his short “Sunset” piece to show how spacing, sound-patterns, and omission create a concentrated experience, then reconstructs a conventional version to prove how banality and cliché return when the innovations are removed. From there it weighs French Symbolist influences (Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Valéry), Japanese suggestiveness, and the problem of form versus subject-matter, arguing for organic design over fixed molds; it illustrates flexible structure with Hart Crane and biblical parallelism, and contrasts Eliot’s The Waste Land, whose transitions bind a unified whole, with Tennyson’s In Memoriam, whose uniform stanza masks digression. A chapter on punctuation shows how Cummings’ typography encodes meaning and guards against misreading, then compares that editorial vulnerability to Shakespeare’s Sonnet 129, demonstrating how modernized punctuation and spelling can flatten Shakespeare’s dense, interwoven sense. Finally, the start of the next chapter frames modernism’s “unpopularity,” and analyzes another Cummings piece (a jolting train scene) to show how unorthodox layout precisely transmits movement and perception. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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Publication, distribution, etc. of original London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1927
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Uncontrolled term Modernism (Literature)
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Uncontrolled term Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Uncontrolled term Free verse
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Graves, Robert,
Dates associated with a name 1895-1985
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://archive.org/details/surveyofmodernis0000ridi">https://archive.org/details/surveyofmodernis0000ridi</a>
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76401">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76401</a>

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