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"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 wroug...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mazzoni, Guido, 1967- (Author)
Other Authors: Hanafi, Zakiya, 1959- (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.
Subjects:
Italian poetry > 19th century > History and criticism.
Italian poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Poetry, Modern > 19th century > History and criticism.
Poetry, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Lyric poetry.
Literary form.
Italian poetry.
Poetry, Modern.
1800-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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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"--
Item Description:First edition originally published in Italian as Sulla poesia moderna (Bologna : Società editrice il Mulino, 2005) --Title page verso.
Translated from the Italian.
Physical Description:vii, 250 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780674249035
0674249038