Modern poetry is markedly different from classic poetry. It relies less on meter and rhyme, and focuses more on biographical events and the everyday experiences of people. So why isn’t poetry more ...

Many a critic, determined to speak with clarity and certitude upon the dauntingly ambiguous subject of modern poetry in English—or upon modernism in general, for that matter—has found himself invoking ...

The American poet Violet Ranney Lang was born in 1924 and died in 1956, of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, at the age of thirty-two. Although last year marked the centenary of her birth, the occasion passed ...

Regular readers of the New York Times Book Review may recognize David Orr as that publication’s poetry critic — assuming they ever look at poetry criticism in the first place. Orr’s clear, ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.57.2.0210 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/complitstudies.57.2.0210 Copy URL An earlier version of this paper was given ...

AMERICAN POETRY now belongs to a subculture. No longer part of the mainstream of artistic and intellectual life, it has become the specialized occupation of a relatively small and isolated group.

The Hindu Lit for Life 2025: How Modern is Modern Tamil Poetry? “They captured the sense of contradiction and complexity, marking the modern,” she said, and read out poems of Athmanam to reiterate the ...