After the Lost War (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Andrew Hudgins
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Narrative poetry
- Time of Work: The 1860's to the 1880's
- Setting: The American South
- Principal Characters: Sidney Lanier, Mary Day Lanier, Clifford Lanier
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Family or family life, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, South or Southerners, Nineteenth century, Civil War, Death or dying, Reconstruction, Tuberculosis
- Locales: South (U.S.)
Literary movements often proceed by dialectic: A new mode of expression emerges in rebellion against the dominant and shopworn convention of the day; the new form is explored, refined, popularized and reproduced, until it too becomes exhausted and trite, necessitating a swing back to the form against which it originally sprang in opposition. Yet this harking back is never a simple return to the previous form, but a new creation representing a new synthesis. Thus, literary expression is constantly renewing itself. In the twentieth century, the dominant mode of poetic expression has been...
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