Graphics of Verse - Experimental Typography in Twentieth-Century Poetry

Exploiting the expressive possibilities of print--from spacing and indentation to alignment and typeface--is one of the defining ways in which poetry was modernized in the twentieth-century. This book explores why British and American poets choose to experiment with the design and lay-out of the printed page.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Pound's Transmissions


• 2: Cummings's Typewriter Language


• 3: Olson Among The Letterers


• Conclusion


• Bibliography

About the author

Daniel Matore is Lecturer in Modern, American and Comparative Literature at the University of York. He read for a BA and MPhil in English at the University of Cambridge, winning the Betha Wolferstan Rylands Prize. He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford and has been awarded grants by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He has previously been lecteur d'anglais at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and Jean Nordell Fellow at the Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Summary

Exploiting the expressive possibilities of print--from spacing and indentation to alignment and typeface--is one of the defining ways in which poetry was modernized in the twentieth-century. This book explores why British and American poets choose to experiment with the design and lay-out of the printed page.

Product details

• Authors: Matore , Daniel Matore, Daniel (Lecturer in Modern Matore
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.10.2023
• EAN: 9780192857217
• ISBN: 978-0-19-285721-7
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Oxford English Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets