Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Birth of the Modern Poet -- 2. Acts of Judgement: Making a National Body of Poetry -- 3. Scholar-Gypsies -- 4. Modernist Cybernetics and the Poetry of Knowledge -- 5. Men, Women and American Classrooms -- Coda: The Poet's Work -- Index -- Last Page
Summary
Addressing all readers of poetry, Robert Crawford explores the poet's role through the last three centuries, showing how generations of poets across the English-speaking world have collaborated, and battled, with the culture of the universities