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Issue Details: First known date: 1930... 1930 An Interesting Survey of Modernist Poetry
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Maurice promotes the cause of the American Modernist poets as a contrast to 'the washy sentimentality and maudlin fumbling of our regular poets in England and Australia'. Includes discussion of William Carlos Williams, e.e. cummings and Wallace Stevens.

Notes

  • Editor's note: The well-known Australian poet, Furnley Maurice, discusses a modern development of poetry which is understood and appreciated by few.

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    y separately published work icon All About Books vol. 2 no. 5 19 May 1930 Z1272170 1930 periodical issue 1930 pg. 113-115

Works about this Work

Modernist Poetry - The Other Side Robert James , 1930 single work criticism
— Appears in: All About Books , 15 July vol. 2 no. 7 1930; (p. 177-178)
James adds to the debate on the 'modernist movement' begun by Maurice.
Modernist Poetry - The Other Side Robert James , 1930 single work criticism
— Appears in: All About Books , 15 July vol. 2 no. 7 1930; (p. 177-178)
James adds to the debate on the 'modernist movement' begun by Maurice.
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