It takes the average reader 7 hours and 16 minutes to read Who Killed American Poetry? by Karen L. Kilcup
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Throughout the 19th century, American poetry was a profoundly populist literary form. It circulated in New England magazines and Southern newspapers; it was read aloud in taverns, homes, and schools across the country. Antebellum reviewers envisioned poetry as the touchstone democratic genre, and their Civil War–era counterparts celebrated its motivating power, singing poems on battlefields. Following the war, however, as criticism grew more professionalized and American literature emerged as an academic subject, reviewers increasingly elevated difficult, dispassionate writing and elite...
Who Killed American Poetry? by Karen L. Kilcup is 426 pages long, and a total of 109,056 words.
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