A Landscape for Early 20th-Century Poetry: Pastorals of the Little-Magazine Avant-Garde
This article considers four poems published in the little magazine The Dial in its 71st volume, which appeared in 1921. A forum for the transnational avantgarde at the time and home to Modernist poets such as Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound and others, this magazine provides insight into the main concern...
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| Natura: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines
2024
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | This article considers four poems published in the little magazine The Dial in its 71st volume, which appeared in 1921. A forum for the transnational avantgarde at the time and home to Modernist poets such as Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound and others, this magazine provides insight into the main concerns of the writers of its time and constitutes a space where the relationship between Modernism, pastoral, landscape, and geology is explored. Marianne Moore’s “A Graveyard,” Hart Crane’s “Pastorale,” Maxwell Bodenheim’s “Summer Evening: New York Subway Station,” and Malcolm Cowley’s “Mountain Valley” will be discussed together with both historical and more recent theories on landscape and aesthetics, nature, and the Anthropocene, including Alexander Blok’s response to the 1908 earthquake in Sicily and Ludwig Mediner’s 1914 call for new forms and techniques for the representation of urban environments in the visual arts. Placing these poems in a conversation with both contemporaneous and more recent theories on landscape and aesthetics, nature, and the Anthropocene makes it possible to discern how these poets’ awareness of the aestheticizing practices involved in representations of nature informs their work, and to understand how they work to destabilize simplistic nature-culture dichotomies. |
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