On Modern Poetry

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On Modern Poetry is written by Guido Mazzoni and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674276167 (ISBN 10) and 9780674276161 (ISBN 13).

Guido Mazzoni tells the story of poetry’s revolution in the modern age. The chief transformation was the rise of the lyric as it is now conceived: a genre in which a first-person speaker talks about itself. Mazzoni argues that modern poetry embodies the age of the individual and has wrought profound changes in the expectations of readers.