The Anthology Form: introduction

Abstract

The paper introduces the proceedings of the Second Annual Seminar on Contemporary Poetry, held on 22-23 November 2021 at the University of Milan and devoted to the Anthology Form. After traversing various fundamental issues related to anthological practice – understood in its historical materiality – the introduction questions the role of poetry anthologies in the Twentieth-century and Post-Twentieth-century Literary System. Subsequently, it summarises the contributions in the issue, in order to offer an overall view of them.