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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Predicate Object
instanceOf American modernist movement
group of poets
literary movement
associatedEditor Harriet Monroe NERFINISHED
Louis Zukofsky NERFINISHED
associatedPublication Poetry magazine
coreConcept attention to historical and social reality
objectification of the poem
sincerity in perception
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
field literature
poetry
genre modernist poetry
hasMember Basil Bunting NERFINISHED
Carl Rakosi NERFINISHED
Charles Reznikoff NERFINISHED
George Oppen NERFINISHED
Kenneth Rexroth NERFINISHED
Lorine Niedecker NERFINISHED
Louis Zukofsky NERFINISHED
William Carlos Williams NERFINISHED
influenced Language poets NERFINISHED
later American avant-garde poetry
postwar American modernist poetry
influencedBy Ezra Pound NERFINISHED
Imagism NERFINISHED
William Carlos Williams NERFINISHED
high modernism
languageStyle colloquial speech
plain diction
literaryTradition American modernism NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
notableFigure Basil Bunting NERFINISHED
Carl Rakosi NERFINISHED
Charles Reznikoff NERFINISHED
George Oppen NERFINISHED
Lorine Niedecker NERFINISHED
Louis Zukofsky NERFINISHED
relatedMovement Imagist poets NERFINISHED
New American Poetry NERFINISHED
timePeriod 1930s
early 20th century

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New American Poetry hasPart Objectivist poets
Paul Blackburn influencedBy Objectivist poets