The Forms of Youth

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The Forms of Youth is written by Stephen Burt and published by Columbia University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0231141424 (ISBN 10) and 9780231141420 (ISBN 13).

"Early in the twentieth century, Americans and other English-speaking nations began to regard adolescence as a separate phase of life. Associated with uncertainty, inwardness, instability, and sexual energy, adolescence acquired its own tastes, habits, subcultures, slang, economic interests, and art forms." "The first comprehensive study of adolescence in twentieth-century poetry, The Forms of Youth recasts the history of how English-speaking cultures began to view this phase of life as a valuable state of consciousness, if not the very essence of a Western identity."--BOOK JACKET.