Week 9: New Directions: The First Wave
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| Poetry at the turn of the century represented the
experimentation characteristic of the "modern" movements flowing out of the 19th
century explorations of the relationships between the mind, the emotions, the
imagination and art in all of its genres. Born in St. Louis, T. S. Eliot became a British citizen following World War I. His work as an "imagist" contributed to a theory of poetry and writing that emphasized the precision of the word and its form within the line. Carl Sandburg followed the free form of Whitman, a practice decried by his peer, Robert Frost, a traditional lyricist, who mastered the forms, giving them his own New England enchantments. This page was last modified on January 12, 2007, and is maintained by Dr. Geoffrey Grimes. .  |