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This collection of essays is a tribute to Andrzej Kopcewicz, the first professor ordinarius of American literature in the history of English studies in Poland. It coincides with the centenary of Imagism and what would have been Professor Kopcewicz's 80th birthday. The title alludes to his first book which was devoted to the image and the objective correlative in early 20th-century Anglo-American poetry. Image in Modern(ist) Verse opens with a revised and abridged version of that publication. Kopcewicz's study can be still read as a useful historical, theoretical, and practical introduction to modern poetry. The bulk of the volume is made up of contributions by contemporary academics - Paulina Ambrozy, Joseph Kuhn, Pawel Stachura, Jørgen Veisland, and Milosz Wojtyna - who discuss various facets, strands and sub-strands of Imagism, as well as its ongoing legacy.
List of contents
Contents: Andrzej Kopcewicz: The image and the objective correlative in modernist verse - Paulina Ambrozy: Dead end or a change of direction?: One hundred years of imagism - Jørgen Veisland: Imagism as a modernist poetics. Erasing the border between subject and object in 20th-century poetry, fiction, and drama - Joseph Kuhn: Southern Dinglichkeit: The theory of the image in the work of John Crowe Ransom - Pawel Stachura: Dialectical and dialogical images in the poetry of Vachel Lindsay and T. S. Eliot - Milosz Wojtyna: The vicinity of things - Ezra Pound's imagism in the poetry of Basil Bunting and Simon Armitage.
About the author
Janusz Semrau is associate professor at the University of Social Sciences (SAN) in Warsaw. He has authored several books and numerous papers on various aspects of 19th- and 20th-century American literature.
Marek Wilczy¿ski is associate professor at the University of Gdäsk. He has authored books and papers on 19th- and 20th-century American literature, contemporary Polish literature, and literary theory.
