The Cambridge Introduction to modernist poetry [electronic resource] / Peter Howarth.
2012
PN1271 .H69 2012
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Title
The Cambridge Introduction to modernist poetry [electronic resource] / Peter Howarth.
Author
Howarth, Peter, 1973-
ISBN
9780521764476
9780521147859
9781139185417 (electronic book)
9780521147859
9781139185417 (electronic book)
Imprint
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
x, 264 p.
Call Number
PN1271 .H69 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
821/.91209112
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 their styles shift as they try to re-make the community of readers. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cambridge introductions to literature.
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Why write like this?; 2. Ezra Pound; 3. T. S. Eliot; 4. W. B. Yeats; 5. Modernist America: Williams, Moore, Stevens; 6. Avant-gardism: Loy, Stein, H. D.; 7. Why is it so difficult?; 8. Inside and outside modernism; Index.