Louis Untermeyer
Modern American Poetry
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(Prabhat Prakashan July 4, 2019)
The end of the Civil War marked the end of a literary epoch. The New England group; containing (if Poe could be added) all the great names of the ante-bellum period; began to disintegrate. The poets had outsung themselves; it was a time of surrender and swansongs. Unable to respond to the new forces of political nationalism and industrial reconstruction; the Brahmins (that famous group of intellectuals who dominated literary America) withdrew into their libraries. Poets like Longfellow; Bryant; Taylor; turned their eyes away from the native scene; rhapsodized endlessly about Europe; echoed the “parlor poetry” of England; or left creative writing altogether and occupied themselves with translations. “They had been borne into an era in which they had no part;” writes Fred Lewis Pattee (A History of American Literature Since 1870); “and they contented themselves with reëchoings of the old music.” ... Within a single period of six years; from 1867 to 1872; there appeared Longfellow’s Divina Commedia; C. E. Norton’s Vita Nuova; T. W. Parson’s Inferno; William Cullen Bryant’s Iliad and Odyssey; and Bayard Taylor’s Faust.
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