On modern poetry
"Guido Mazzoni tells the story of poetry's revolution in the modern age. The chief transformation was the rise of the lyric as it is now conceived: a genre in which a first-person speaker talks about itself. Mazzoni argues that modern poetry embodies the age of the individual and has wroug...
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Resource Type: | Electronic Resource |
Language: | English Italian |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
2022.
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Online Access: | Click here to access thru OpenAthens |
Summary: | "Guido Mazzoni tells the story of poetry's revolution in the modern age. The chief transformation was the rise of the lyric as it is now conceived: a genre in which a first-person speaker talks about itself. Mazzoni argues that modern poetry embodies the age of the individual and has wrought profound changes in the expectations of readers"--Provided by publisher. |
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Item Description: | First edition originally published in Italian as Sulla poesia moderna (Bologna : Società editrice il Mulino, 2005) --Title page verso. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 250 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes index. |
ISBN: | 9780674276291 (ebook) |