Barnsley Mary Barnard, American Imagist

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4857-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Uncovers a new chapter in the story of American modernist poetry.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barnsley, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Chronology

1. “Spare But Musical”: The Poetry of Mary Barnard

2. Late Imagism

2.1 “The Only Really Worthwhile Piece of Poetry Criticism I Had Ever Read”: Pound’s Imagism
2.2 Barnard’s Imagist Local
2.3 “Sand Is the Beginning and the End/Of Our Dominion”: Barnard, H.D., and the Gender of Imagism
2.4 “We Can’t Get to the World Hard Enough or Fast Enough… We Just Must Write”: Barnard, Williams, and American Imagism

3. “A Would-Be Sappho”

3.1 Sappho and the Imagists
3.2 Barnard’s Sapphic Imagism
3.3 Barnard’s Sapphic-American Modernism

4. “A New Way of Measuring Verse”

4.1 Barnard and Pound: An ABC of Metrics
4.2 The Weighted Syllable
4.3 “A Well-Conceived Form within which Modification May Exist”: Barnard, Williams, and the Question of American Measure
4.4 “An Idiom AND a Swing”: Sappho: A New Translation

5. “A Bright Particular Excellence”: The Achievement of Mary Barnard

Epilogue: The Mary Barnard Papers: A Note

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Barnsley is Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London.