Background
Holden, Jonathan was born on July 18, 1941 in Morristown, New Jersey, United States. Son of Alan Nordby and Jaynet (Conselyea) Holden.
( Are we witnessing the death of American poetry? Many cr...)
Are we witnessing the death of American poetry? Many critics have charged as much, pointing to a poetry that is increasingly marginal, specialized, and cloistered. Challenging such doomsayers, Jonathan Holden offers a hopeful appraisal of the current state of American poetry. Examining the reasons behind the loss of readership and diminished status of poetry in America, Holden blames the advent of modernism and the institutionalization of the modernist tradition in university English departments. Although in many ways the American university's overwhelming support of poetry has left the art more vigorous than ever, it has also encouraged a mass production of mediocre verse. Holden contends that the best postwar American poets have shed the elitist vestiges of modernism and have enlarged both the capabilities of poetry and its appeal to a general audience by incorporating subject matter formerly confined to other genres. In discussing contemporary poems Holden illustrates how American poetry, by including a more diverse subject matter, can assert some just claim to a wider audience―a literate audience of nonspecialists.
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Holden, Jonathan was born on July 18, 1941 in Morristown, New Jersey, United States. Son of Alan Nordby and Jaynet (Conselyea) Holden.
Bachelor, Oberlin College, 1963; Master of Arts, San Francisco State University, 1970; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Colorado, 1974.
English instructor, Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri, 1974-1977; Professor of English, Kansas State University, Manhattan, since 1977.
( Are we witnessing the death of American poetry? Many cr...)
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Married Gretchen Weltzheimer, November 16, 1963 (divorced May 1991). Children: Alanna Kim, Zachary. Married Anita Rae Curtiz, April 27, 1997.