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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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