The Graphics of Verse: Experimental Typography in Twentieth-Century Poetry by Matore, Daniel

The Graphics of Verse: Experimental Typography in Twentieth-Century Poetry (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780192857217)

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The Graphics of Verse: Experimental Typography in Twentieth-Century Poetry by Matore, Daniel

The Graphics of Verse: Experimental Typography in Twentieth-Century Poetry

$85.00
The Graphics of Verse: Experimental Typography in Twentieth-Century Poetry by Matore, Daniel

The Graphics of Verse: Experimental Typography in Twentieth-Century Poetry

$85.00
Format: Hardcover
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Is poetry a visual art? Why do the pages of nineteenth-century poetry look so different to those of twentieth-century verse? Exploiting the expressive possibilities of print--from spacing and indentation to alignment and typeface--is one of the defining ways in which poetry was modernized in the twentieth century. While the visual experiments of European poets have been well documented, the typographical explorations of poets writing in English have been largely neglected. This volume confronts a major unanswered question: why did British and American poets, from the beginning of the twentieth century right up to the present day, choose to experiment with the design and lay-out of the printed page?

This book aims to provide the first detailed account of this lineage of literary style, examining the poetry and criticism of figures such as Ezra Pound, Hope Mirrlees, William Carlos Williams, E.E. Cummings, Marianne Moore, David Jones, Denise Levertov, Charles Olson, Frances Motz Boldereff, and J.H. Prynne. It draws on unpublished archival materials to show how poets began to draft, sketch, and compose in new and eccentric ways as they annexed the roles of book designer and printer. Typography, it argues, was instrumental in debates about metre, free verse, and the nature of poetry as poems morphed into scores, slogans, maps, and signs. It investigates how the typography of poetry was animated by musicology, psychophysics, linguistics, politics, ophthalmology, cartography, and advertising.

Author: Daniel Matore
ISBN-10: 0192857215
ISBN-13: 9780192857217
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 03/07/2024
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 1.40d
By Daniel Matore
By Daniel Matore
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Daniel Matore, Lecturer in Modern, American and Comparative Literature, University of York

Daniel Matore is Lecturer in Modern, American and Comparative Literature at the University of York. He read for a BA and MPhil in English at the University of Cambridge, winning the Betha Wolferstan Rylands Prize. He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford and has been awarded grants by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He has previously been lecteur d'anglais at the ﾉcole Normale Sup駻ieure de Lyon and Jean Nordell Fellow at the Houghton Library, Harvard University.

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