Objectivist poets

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Objectivist poets were a group of early 20th-century American modernist writers who emphasized clarity, sincerity, and the poem as a crafted object, including figures such as Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, and Charles Reznikoff.

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Objectivist poets canonical 4
Objectivist poetry 2
Objectivist movement 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American modernist movement
group of poets
literary movement
associatedEditor Harriet Monroe
Louis Zukofsky
associatedPublication Poetry magazine
coreConcept attention to historical and social reality
objectification of the poem
sincerity in perception
countryOfOrigin United States
field literature
poetry
genre modernist poetry
hasMember Basil Bunting
Carl Rakosi
Charles Reznikoff
George Oppen
Kenneth Rexroth
Lorine Niedecker
Louis Zukofsky
William Carlos Williams
influenced Language poets
later American avant-garde poetry
postwar American modernist poetry
influencedBy Ezra Pound
Imagism
William Carlos Williams
high modernism
languageStyle colloquial speech
plain diction
literaryTradition American modernism
mainCharacteristic attention to craftsmanship
concrete imagery
economic use of language
emphasis on clarity
emphasis on sincerity
focus on the poem as an object
movement modernism
linked to: Modernism
notableFigure Basil Bunting
Carl Rakosi
Charles Reznikoff
George Oppen
Lorine Niedecker
Louis Zukofsky
relatedMovement Imagist poets
linked to: Imagism

New American Poetry
timePeriod 1930s
early 20th century

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New American Poetry hasPart Objectivist poets
Paul Blackburn influencedBy Objectivist poets
Basil Bunting movement Objectivist poetry
linked to: Objectivist poets
Louis Zukofsky movement Objectivist poetry
linked to: Objectivist poets
Louis Zukofsky associatedWith Objectivist movement
linked to: Objectivist poets
"No ideas but in things" relatedTo objectivism (poetry)
linked to: Objectivist poets
Black Mountain school influencedBy Objectivist poets