Erica McAlpine

Bio

Erica McAlpine is the Robin Geffen Career Development Fellow in English at Keble College, Oxford. She has published essays on Elizabeth Bishop, Paul Muldoon, Alicia Stallings, John Keats, John Clare, and others; she is also a practicing poet, and her collection of poems, The Country Gambler, will appear in April 2016.

Contributions

Modernism by Craft: Poetry and Poetics in the Long Twentieth Century

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Let me start with a debatable, if not terribly new, proposition: that we should conceive of and teach modern poetry as a set of texts with origins in the 1850s and aftershocks in the poems of the present day. I advocate inclusivity because I find it difficult to separate poets considered canonically “modern” from earlier or later poets whose breaks with tradition and formal innovations, whose newness and strangeness in their own time, give them as sure a claim to the ideals of modernism as many...

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