ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MODERN POETRY AND POETICS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which one of the following was not a “little magazine” that primarily published and championed modernist poetry in the first half of the 20th century?
A
The Partisan Review
B
The Owl
C
Poetry
D
Blast
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -little magazine, any of various small periodicals devoted to serious literary writings, usually avant-garde and noncommercial. They were published from about 1880 through much of the 20th century and flourished in the United States and England, though French writers (especially the Symbolist poets and critics, 1880–c.

Detailed explanation-2: -Poets like W. B. Yeats (1865–1939) and Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) started in a post-Romantic, Symbolist vein and modernised their poetic idiom after being affected by political and literary developments. Imagism proved radical and important, marking a new point of departure for poetry.

Detailed explanation-3: -Modernism, spanning the first half of the twentieth century, was the era of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, William Faulkner, and other heavyweights who made it their business to revolutionize literature.

Detailed explanation-4: -Marion Angus. W. H. Auden. Djuna Barnes. Elizabeth Bishop. Rupert Brooke. Basil Bunting. Hart Crane. E. E. Cummings. More items

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