Objectivist poets topic

The Objectivist poets were a loose-knit group of second-generation Modernist who emerged in the 1930s. They were mainly American and were influenced by, amongst others, Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. The basic tenets of Objectivist poetics as defined by Louis Zukofsky were to treat the poem as an object, and to emphasise sincerity, intelligence, and the poet's ability to look clearly at the world. The core group consisted of the Americans Zukofsky, Williams, Charles Reznikoff, George... full article at wikipedia