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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays is a tribute to Andrzej Kopcewicz, the
first professor ordinarius of American literature in the history of English studies in Poland. It coincides with the centenary of Imagism and what would have been Professor Kopcewicz’s 80th birthday. The title alludes to his first book which was devoted to the image and the objective correlative in early 20th-century Anglo-American poetry.
Image in Modern(ist) Verse opens with a revised and abridged version of that publication. Kopcewicz’s study can be still read as a useful historical, theoretical, and practical introduction to modern poetry. The bulk of the volume is made up of contributions by contemporary academics – Paulina Ambroży, Joseph Kuhn, Paweł Stachura, Jørgen Veisland, and Miłosz Wojtyna – who discuss various facets, strands and sub-strands of Imagism, as well as its ongoing legacy.
Table of ContentsContents: Andrzej Kopcewicz: The image and the objective correlative in modernist verse – Paulina Ambroży: Dead end or a change of direction?: One hundred years of imagism – Jørgen Veisland: Imagism as a modernist poetics. Erasing the border between subject and object in 20th-century poetry, fiction, and drama – Joseph Kuhn: Southern
Dinglichkeit: The theory of the image in the work of John Crowe Ransom – Paweł Stachura: Dialectical and dialogical images in the poetry of Vachel Lindsay and T. S. Eliot – Miłosz Wojtyna: The vicinity of things - Ezra Pound’s imagism in the poetry of Basil Bunting and Simon Armitage.
