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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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Cambridge introductions to literature.
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Cambridge Introduction to modernist poetry |h [electronic resource] / |c Peter Howarth. |
| 246 | 3 | |a Introduction to modernist poetry | |
| 260 | |a Cambridge ; |a New York : |b Cambridge University Press, |c 2012. | ||
| 300 | |a x, 264 p. | ||
| 490 | 1 | |a Cambridge introductions to literature | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 8 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a "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"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 533 | |a Electronic reproduction. |b Palo Alto, Calif. : |c ebrary, |d 2013. |n Available via World Wide Web. |n Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Poetry, Modern |y 20th century |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Modernism (Literature) | |
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