Modernism, Periodicals, and Cultural Poetics [Hardcover]

After the publication of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, a complex series of debates occurred over the traditions of English poetry. Analyzing these diverse discussions in a wide range of well-known periodicals during the late modernist period, Chambers uncovers how poetry was shaped by avant-garde ideas, setting poetic trends for the 20th century.Introduction 1. Standards of Criticism 2. The English in English Surrealism 3. Popular Poetry and Mass-Observation 4. The Politics of Reception Conclusion: Periodical Formations, Anthologies, and Canons

Modernism, Periodicals, and Cultural Poetics offers a substantial contribution to increasing scholarship on the late modernist period. & The wealth of information covered in Chamberss book is ambitious: each chapter zeroes in on case studies featuring a complex periodical formation, both bringing home the centrality of periodicals in facilitating cultural change, and illustrating why periodical publications are quintessential resources for examining how cultural, political, and societal changes occur. (Leah Budke, Journal of European Studies, Vol. 3 (1), 2018)

Matthew Chambers is Assistant Professor of Transatlantic and Media Studies at the University of Lodz, Poland. Authoritative, thorough, and scrupulous, this book pleads for cultural diversity while clearly demonstrating the social, political, and aesthetic dangers inherent in programmatic definition. This is a rewarding book, and necessary. - Peter Quartermain, Professor Emeritus of English, The University of British Columbia, Canada, and author of Stubborn Poetries: Poetic Facticity and the Avant-Garde

Chambers carefully cuts back the myths which have grown dense over landmarks in twentieth century English poetry. Through a nuanced reading of the 'little magazines' and anthologies that launched, affirmed, discussed, and refuted the poetry of these groupings, Chambers not only adds to our understanding of English literary culture bul2