Book contents
- Chicago: A Literary History
- Chicago
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Literary History of Chicago
- Part I The Rise of Chicago and the Literary West
- Part II Business Unusual: A New Urban American Literature
- Part III Radicalism, Modernism, and the Chicago Renaissance
- Chapter 11 Progressive Chicago: Upton Sinclair, Jane Addams, and Social Reform Literature
- Chapter 12 From the Prairie to the City: Willa Cather’s “City of Feeling”
- Chapter 13 Poetry, the Little Review, and Chicago Modernism
- Chapter 14 A Spirit of Two Ages: The Romantic Modernism of Carl Sandburg’s Chicago Poems
- Chapter 15 Building a Movement: Mary Reynolds Aldis and Little Theatre in Chicago
- Chapter 16 Father to Son: Floyd Dell, Sherwood Anderson, and the Chicago Renaissance
- Part IV A City of Neighborhoods: The Great Depression, Sociology, and the Black Chicago Renaissance
- Part V Traditions and Futures: Contemporary Chicago Literatures
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 14 - A Spirit of Two Ages: The Romantic Modernism of Carl Sandburg’s Chicago Poems
from Part III - Radicalism, Modernism, and the Chicago Renaissance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 September 2021
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Book contents
- Chicago: A Literary History
- Chicago
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Literary History of Chicago
- Part I The Rise of Chicago and the Literary West
- Part II Business Unusual: A New Urban American Literature
- Part III Radicalism, Modernism, and the Chicago Renaissance
- Chapter 11 Progressive Chicago: Upton Sinclair, Jane Addams, and Social Reform Literature
- Chapter 12 From the Prairie to the City: Willa Cather’s “City of Feeling”
- Chapter 13 Poetry, the Little Review, and Chicago Modernism
- Chapter 14 A Spirit of Two Ages: The Romantic Modernism of Carl Sandburg’s Chicago Poems
- Chapter 15 Building a Movement: Mary Reynolds Aldis and Little Theatre in Chicago
- Chapter 16 Father to Son: Floyd Dell, Sherwood Anderson, and the Chicago Renaissance
- Part IV A City of Neighborhoods: The Great Depression, Sociology, and the Black Chicago Renaissance
- Part V Traditions and Futures: Contemporary Chicago Literatures
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores the influence of British Romanticism – its emphasis on the splendors of nature, the wonder of the sublime, the rehabilitation of outcasts, and, above all, the lure of revolutionary change – on Carl Sandburg’s 1916 collection, Chicago Poems. The chapter concludes that Chicago Poems, a book many associate with the advent of modernism, looks instead like the vestiges of Romanticism.
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- ChicagoA Literary History, pp. 194 - 207Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021