This study, first published in 1981, argues that the map of modernist poetry needs to be redrawn so as to include a central tradition that cannot properly be located within the Romantic-Symbolist tradition that dominated the early-20th century. Marjorie Perloff traces this tradition from its early ""French connection"" in the poetry of Rimbaud and Apollinaire as well as in Cubist, Dada and early Surrealist painting; through its various manifestations in the work of Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound; to such postmodern ""landscapes without depth"" as the French/English language constructions of Samuel Beckett, the elusive dreamscapes of John Ashbery, and the performance works of David Antin and John Cage.
| ISBN: | 9780810117648 |
| Publication date: | 30th December 1999 |
| Author: | Marjorie Perloff |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 368 pages |
| Series: | Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: poetry and poets Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary theory |