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   Sep 28, 2023 · In this month’s essay, Michael Simms examines the mercurial and wide-ranging subject of American poetry’s musicality, focusing specifically on rhythm, euphony, meter-making, syntax, mnemonics, silence, and forms.

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   Jan 6, 2012 · American poetry of roughly the first half of the twentieth century is remarkable in its richness, inventiveness, and diversity. The variety of poetry written and published in the United States in the last century represents a great period that was marked by an explosion of literary creativity.

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4. www.cambridge.org › core › booksThe Cambridge History of American Poetry

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   Much of nineteenth-century American poetry was devoted to dramatizing the passions and intrigues of the classical past, particularly in the form of verse drama, which constitutes one of the most under examined genres in the literary history.

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   Nov 4, 2023 · The early colonial period (1620 – 1776) began to shape America’s distinct history, and its literature responded to the shifting terrain of a new nation. With the help of such luminaries as Cotton Mathers and Anne Bradstreet, American writers began to shape their individualistic voice.

6. www.poetryfoundation.org › poetrymagazine › articlesThe Music of Poetry

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   Mar 31, 2017 · While William Shakespeare’s reputation is based primarily on his plays, he became famous first as a poet. With the partial exception of the Sonnets (1609), quarried since the early 19th century for autobiographical...

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   Aug 23, 2006 · Pound and Eliot launched Modernism in the opening years of the twentieth century, in the pages of this magazine. And in the opening years of the nineteenth, 1802 to be exact, Wordsworth launched poetry's Romantic era with the second edition of Lyrical Ballads. (The centennial calendar does not go further back.

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   When did poetry become a musical genre?

   • The second chapter discusses the ways in which poetry, the most obviously musical of literary genres, was transformed between the middle of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, with Walt Whitman’s singing and T. S. Eliot’s musical quotation serving as representative examples.

   1. Musical Literature, Its Theory and Practice - Oxford Academic

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   When did American poetry start?

   • And American poetry found its true beginnings in Whitman and Dickinson, who did their writing in the middle of the nineteenth century, not at either end.) But it's not really a matter of calendar. American poetry is ready for something new because our poets have been writing in the same way for a long time now.

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   What was American poetry like in the first half of the twentieth century?

   • American poetry during the first half of the twentieth century was remarkable in its richness, inventiveness, and diversity. The variety of poetry written and published in the United States during this period represents a great period that was marked by an explosion of literary creativity.

   A Century of Innovation: American Poetry from 1900 to the Present

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   When did English poetry start?

   • The early years of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries did not mark new departures for English poetry. And American poetry found its true beginnings in Whitman and Dickinson, who did their writing in the middle of the nineteenth century, not at either end.) But it's not really a matter of calendar.

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   What is American Poetry?

   • American poetry is a tapestry woven by generations of writers. The many threads of history and cultural influences have come together in a vibrant creative canvas, giving poets the opportunity to express themselves and weave powerful new stories.

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   When did poetry start a Romantic era?

   • And in the opening years of the nineteenth, 1802 to be exact, Wordsworth launched poetry's Romantic era with the second edition of Lyrical Ballads. (The centennial calendar does not go further back. The early years of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries did not mark new departures for English poetry.

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9. academic.oup.com › book › 70681. Musical Literature, Its Theory and Practice - Oxford Academic

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   The second chapter discusses the ways in which poetry, the most obviously musical of literary genres, was transformed between the middle of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, with Walt Whitman’s singing and T. S. Eliot’s musical quotation serving as representative examples.