Mary Barnard, American Imagist (Paperback)

Perhaps best known for her outstanding translation of Sappho, poet Mary Barnard (1909 2001) has until recently received little attention for her own work. In this book, Sarah Barnsley examines Barnard s poetry and poetics in the light of her plentiful correspondence with Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and others. Presenting Barnard as a late Imagist, Barnsley links Barnard s search for a poetry grounded in native speech to efforts within American modernism for new forms in the American grain. Barnsley finds that where Pound and Williams began the campaign for a modern poetry liberated from the heave of the iambic pentameter, Barnard completed it through a spare but musical aesthetic derived from her studies of Greek metric and American speech rhythms, channeled through materials drawn direct from the American local. The first book on Barnard, and the first to draw on the Barnard archives at Yale s Beinecke Library, "Mary Barnard, American Imagist" unearths a fascinating and previously untold chapter of twentieth-century American poetry."

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2014
First published:	July 2014
Authors:	Sarah Barnsley
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	196
ISBN-13:	978-1-4384-4856-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
LSN:	1-4384-4856-2
Barcode:	9781438448565

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