Friedrich read modern poetry’s abnormality against older exemplary forms

Evidence

In his book, he attempted to demonstrate the structural unity of modern poetry using relevant examples ranging from Baudelaire and T.S. Eliot to Saint-John Perse. I myself,' he admitted in his foreword, am no avant-gardist. I am happier with Goethe than with T.S. Eliot. But that is not the question. What interests me is how to recognize the symptoms of daring and toughness in modernism.’ Taking his standards of judgement from older literatureor, to be more precise, from the forms of older literature which the dominant taste considered to be exemplaryhe hoped to describe the elements of abnormality that were found in modern poetry. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2230

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Modernist dogma assumes no modern form can be inferior to a premodern one — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 1014; Formal markers in pastiche texts appear as traces of older forms — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 230

Broader Connections

• Modernist dogma assumes no modern form can be inferior to a premodern one #expands (0.78) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 1014
• Formal markers in pastiche texts appear as traces of older forms #complicates (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 230