Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics: Unsettling the Limits

D. Melaney, William

How does modern poetry from Donne to Ashbery provide occasions for rethinking the scope and limits of the literary canon? This question is not simply concerned with literature in English but addresses the problem of how texts transform the reader’s experience of literature in the wake of modernity. This study shows how an experience of absence is the starting point for a reversal that occurs whenever reading transforms an engagement with the world. The eight chapters that comprise this study offer revisionary readings of key poetic works and a new way of understanding the modern canon. 

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2025-11-01

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783032071231

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-07124-8

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 168