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The Forms of Youth: Twentieth-Century Poetry and Adolescence
The Forms of Youth TwentiethCentury Poetry and Adolescence Author:Stephen Burt "A major achievement by one of the most ardent poet-critics of the moment. Stephen Burt hears poems the way a poet hears poems, but this book is not a collection of scrapings from around the work-bench: it is a wide-ranging, fully modulated argument about the ways in which poetic language has registered the cultural phenomenon of adolescence. Li... more »ke its subject, the book is big, surprising, and wonderfully inevitable." -- James Longenbach, Joseph H. Gilmore Professor of English, University of Rochester« less