Author : David Bergman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316300021
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)
Book Synopsis The Poetry of Disturbance by : David Bergman
Download or read book The Poetry of Disturbance written by David Bergman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Poetry of Disturbance, David Bergman argues that post-war poetry underwent a significant if subtle shift in emphasis, moving from the modernist concern with the poem as a visual text to one that was chiefly oral in nature. The resulting change was disturbing, especially for those brought up on the principles of high modernism. This new stress on orality implied a shift in the economy of the poem, away from the austerity of language advocated by Pound and Eliot to a style that conveyed freedom, expansiveness, and an innovative directness.