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A survey of modernist poetry

Chapter 15: INDEX OF PRINCIPAL PROPER NAMES
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The volume offers a sustained critical examination of early twentieth-century experimental verse, defending its techniques while explaining why it often alienates ordinary readers. Through chapter-length discussions the authors interrogate form and subject matter, punctuation and orthography, reader expectations, relations to earlier movements, and the processes of composition; they illustrate points with close readings and reconstructions of difficult poems (notably on unconventional punctuation and spelling), analyze rhythmic, alliterative, and syntactic strategies, and consider modernist variety, humor, and cultural implications before a concluding synthesis urging a more active, informed reading stance.

INDEX OF PRINCIPAL PROPER NAMES

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