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On modern poetry / Guido Mazzoni ; translated by Zakiya Hanafi.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022Description: 250pISBN:
  • 9780674249035
Uniform titles:
  • Sulla poesia moderna.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.103 MAZ(TB)
Summary: "Guido Mazzoni tells the story of poetry's revolution in the modern age. The chief transformation was the rise of the lyric as it is now conceived: a genre in which a first-person speaker talks about itself. Mazzoni argues that modern poetry embodies the age of the individual and has wrought profound changes in the expectations of readers"--
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First edition originally published in Italian as Sulla poesia moderna (Bologna : Società editrice il Mulino, 2005) --Title page verso.

Includes index.

"Guido Mazzoni tells the story of poetry's revolution in the modern age. The chief transformation was the rise of the lyric as it is now conceived: a genre in which a first-person speaker talks about itself. Mazzoni argues that modern poetry embodies the age of the individual and has wrought profound changes in the expectations of readers"--

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