The Cambridge Introduction to modernist poetry /
"Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and...
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Cambridge University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Cambridge ; New York : |
Publication Dates: | 2012. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge introductions to literature
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Summary: |
"Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. In-depth chapters on Pound, Eliot, Yeats and the American modernists outline how formal experiments take on the new world of mass media, democracies, total war and changing religious belief. Chapters on the avant-gardes and later modernism examine how thei |
Carrier Form: | x, 264 pages ; 23 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-246) and index. |
ISBN: |
9780521147859 0521147859 9780521764476 0521764475 |
Index Number: | PN1271 |
CLC: | I106.2 |
Call Number: | I106.2/H853 |
Contents: | 1. Why write like this? -- 2. Ezra Pound -- 3. T.S. Eliot -- 4. W.B. Yeats -- 5. Modernist America: Williams, Stevens, Moore -- 6. Avant-gardism: Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, H.D. -- 7. Why is it so difficult? -- 8. Inside and outside modernism. |