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The Modern Age. Structural changes: Darwin, Einstein, Nietzche, Freud, Bergson. Romantic poetry Overflowing of powerful feelings (subjective). Victorian poetry Poetry should teach values and be useful. Aestheticism Poetry was conceived as art for art sake. Imagism
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The Modern Age Structural changes: Darwin, Einstein, Nietzche, Freud, Bergson Romantic poetry Overflowing of powerful feelings (subjective) Victorian poetry Poetry should teach values and be useful Aestheticism Poetry was conceived as art for art sake Imagism Poerty should be dry and hard Modernism (1900-1930) Innovation and impersonality Pound Yeats French Symbolists Eliot Joyce Woolf Blake, Keats, Shelly, Byron O. Wilde Walter Pater Tennyson 1800-1901 1890-1930 Search for man’s place in the world: individual responses Traditional point of reference