New Poetic

Yeats to Eliot
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9473-3
Verlag: Continuum

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 211 g

Reihe: Classic Criticism

CK Stead CBE is a novelist, critic, poet and academic. He has been one of New Zealand's most eminent and prolific writers for over 40 years.
- As one of a new series, Classic Criticism, New Poetic will appeal to the literary studies market.

A classic survey of modern English poetry from the new tradition established by Yeats in the 1890s through to Eliot, including a reassessment of the Georgians and the influence of Pound.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Postgraduates

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stead, C. K.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword to the Revised Edition
1. Introduction
2. W. B. Yeats, 1895-1916
An illustration of the problems
3. 1909-1916: Poets and their Public
Sonority. like a goose
4. 1909-1916: 'Poetry' versus 'Life'
Imperialists; Georgians; War poets
5. The Social Function of Poetry
Pound and the Imagists; Eliot
6. Eliot's 'Dark Embyro'
The merger of morals and aesthetics
7. The Poetry of T. S. Eliot
Affirmation and the Image
8. Conclusion
Index
Acknowledgements

Über Autor(innen)

C. K. STEAD (1932-) was Professor of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and is now a renowned poet and novelist.