TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crawford, Robert
TI  - The modern poet: poetry, academia, and knowledge since the 1750's
SN  - 0199269327
U1  - 821 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - English Literature
KW  - English Poetry-history and criticism
N2  - Addressed to all readers of poetry, this is a wide-ranging book about the poet's role throughout the last three centuries. It argues that a conception of the poets as both primitive and sophisticated emerged in the 1750s. Ever since English literary works became the focus of university studies, classroom discussion has shaped attitudes towards verse. Whether considering Ossian and the Romantics, Victorian scholar-gipsies, Modernist poetries of knowledge, or contemporary poetry in Britain, Ireland, and America, The Modern Poet shows how many successive generations of poets have needed to collaborate and to battle with academia
ER  -