Precursors of authentic and original American Poetry:
William Carlos Williams & H.D. Holida Doolittle
David Herd, English poet, critic, and a professor of modern literature explain at start of his essay about how twentieth – century American poets read British, the inauguration and start of American poetry. He believes that American poetry was inaugurated by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1836. He continues that of course there had been poetry written in America before 1836 by some poets, but he claims that it wasn’t until Emerson declared America’s cultural independence in 1836 with his anonymously published essay Nature that the possibility, one might say the project, of American poetry was born. (David 33). After 1836, American poets wrote their poems mimicking the style and diction of European (English) literature influenced by the European Romanticism and Victorian periods till the imagist trend emerged preceding the emerging of modernism in literatures and especially in poetry.
In December 1910, Virginia Wolf, the English writer declared that human nature has acknowledged an essential change. The announcement testifies for modern author's intense longing to break with the past, dismissing artistic customs that appeared to be old…show more content… He studied in Geneva, Switzerland and at Pennsylvania University; where he got his medicinal degree in 1960. He entered to New York Hospital and contemplated pediatrics at the University of Leipzig for a long time. Later (in 1910) he began practicing pediatrics in Rutherford. Other than he was doing great with his medical career for over 40 years, he wrote in his extra time. Because of his career as a doctor he didn't have time for contemplating and composing as its records and results could be found in his unevenness of his verse and guilelessness of his poetic of his works. He passed away in Rutherford on fourth of March 1963 because of a heart
