The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-521-76447-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 554 g

Reihe: Cambridge Introductions to Literature

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Howarth, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Howarth, Peter
Peter Howarth is Senior Lecturer in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London.