Binding: Hardcover
Description: Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination: The Harmony of Forms assesses the relationship between architectural and poetic innovation in the United States across the twentieth century. Taking the work of five key poets as case studies and drawing on the work of a rich range of other writers architects artists and commentators this study proposes that by examining the sustained and productive - - if hitherto overlooked - - engagement between the two disciplines we enrich our understanding of the complexity and interrelationship of both. The book begins by tracing the rise of what was conceived of as 'modern (and often 'international style') architecture and by showing how poetry and architecture in the early decades of the century developed in dialogue and within a shared and often transnational context. It then moves on to examine the material aesthetic and social conditions that helped shape both disciplines offering new readings of familiar poems and bringing other pertinent resources to light. It considers the uses to which poets of the period put the insights of architecture - - and vice versa. In closing Gill turns to modern and contemporary architects written accounts of their own practice in memoirs and other commentaries and examines how they have assimilated or resisted the practice and vision of poetry.
Title: Modern American Poetry And The Architectural Imagination The Harmony Of Forms
Author(s): Gill Jo (Vice - Principal And Head Of The College Of Arts Vice - Principal And Head Of The College Of Arts University Of Glasgow)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198868347
Pages: 304 Pages, 6 Black And White Illustrations
Publication Date: 6/30/2023
Category: Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets