Mondays at Beinecke: Sterling Brown, James Weldon Johnson, and Modern Poetics with Ben Glaser

Event time: 
Monday, February 22, 2021 - 4:00pm to 4:30pm
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Event description: 

Ben Glaser is an assistant professor of English at Yale University. He is the coeditor of Critical Rhythm: The Poetics of a Literary Life Form.
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His book, “Modernism’s Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020), revisits early twentieth-century poetics to uncover a wide range of metrical practice and theory, upending our inherited story about the “breaking” of meter and rise of free verse.
To read more about Glaser, visit https://english.yale.edu/people/tenured-and-tenure-track-faculty-assista…

Open to: 
General Public