On modern poetry

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"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"--

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Full title :On modern poetry / Guido Mazzoni ; translated by Zakiya Hanafi.

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Publication Date:©2022

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2022

Notes

First edition originally published in Italian as Sulla poesia moderna (Bologna : Società editrice il Mulino, 2005) --Title page verso.

Translated from the Italian.

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Description:vii, 250 pages ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780674249035, 0674249038
oclc:on1266218422
LC Classification:PQ4109
Dewey Decimal:809.1/03

Introduction: sundials: literary genres and the time of history -- A history of concepts -- A new paradigm -- A history of forms -- The literary space of modern poetry -- Conclusion: modern poetry as a symbolic form.

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Criticism, interpretation, etc Genres littéraires Italian poetry Italian poetry -- History and criticism… Italian poetry -- History and criticism… Literary form Lyric poetry Poésie italienne -- Histoire et critiqu… Poésie italienne -- Histoire et critiqu… Poésie lyrique Poetry, Modern Poetry, Modern -- History and criticism… Poetry, Modern -- History and criticism…