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| All art is a twofold revivifying—a recreation of subject and a reanimating of form. And poetry becomes perennially “new” by returning to the old—with a different consciousness, a greater awareness. |
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| 1885–1977, American poet and anthologist, b. New York City. Although a first-rate poet, he is known best for his anthologies, notably Modern American Poetry (1919), Modern British Poetry (1920), This Singing World (1923), Fifty Modern American and British Poets: 1920–1970 (1973), and many others, all of which have been revised numerous times. The high quality of his own poetry and his talent as a parodist are best represented in his Selected Poems and Parodies (1935).—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. |
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- ANTHOLOGIES
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- Modern American Poetry
Contains over 130 poems from such American masters as Ezra Pound, Sara Teasdale, Stephen Vincent Benèt and Emily Dickinson.
- Modern British Poetry
Nearly 180 poems exemplify the works of Britain’s most revered poets, including Bridges, Kipling, “A. E.,” Synge, De la Mare and Colum.
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