Search for Origins in the Twentieth-Century Long Poem UFBC The pace of technological change

The pace of technological change picks up speed with each passing day

on behalf of large groups of similarly affected individuals

In the works of Pope and Samuel Johnson he finds retreat through the worship of bloodless abstractions

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on the heresies of Manichaeism

Search for Origins in the Twentieth-Century Long Poem UFBC The pace of technological changeIn this new, scholarly text an ambitious study of contemporary poetics Joe W. Moffett deciphers the twentieth century long poem, searching for a better understanding of why long poem writers are preoccupied with a search for origins. Moffett focuses on issues like postcolonialism, nation, modernism, and postmodernism. He conceptualizes his theories by using what he calls "originiary moments" historical periods or specific events from which a poet