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Modernist poetry heralded a radical new aesthetic of experimentation, pioneering new verse forms and subjects, and changing the very notion of what it meant to be a poet. This volume examines T.S. Eliot, T.E. Hulme and Ezra Pound, three of the most influential figures of the modernist movement, and argues that we cannot dissociate their bold, inventive poetic forms from their profoundly engaged theories of social and political reform.
Tracing the complex theoretical foundations of modernist poetics, Rebecca Beasley examines:
This volume offers invaluable insight into the modernist movement, as well as demonstrating the deep influence of the three poets on the shape and values of the discipline of English Literature itself. Theorists of Modernist Poetry is relevant not only to students of modernism, but to all those with an interest in why we study, teach, read and evaluate literature the way we do.
BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
SERIES EDITORβS PREFACE......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 12
WHY ELIOT, HULME AND POUND?......Page 14
KEY IDEAS......Page 30
1 ORIGINS OF MODERNISM......Page 32
2 PHILOSOPHICAL DETAILS: THE IMAGE AND THE OBJECTIVE CORRELATIVE......Page 46
3 ANTI-DEMOCRACY: THE POLITICS OF EARLY MODERNISM......Page 60
4 HISTORY AND TRADITION......Page 76
5 THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THE LONG POEM......Page 92
6 MODERNISM AND THE IDEAL SOCIETY......Page 108
AFTER ELIOT, HULME AND POUND......Page 128
FURTHER READING......Page 136
WORKS CITED......Page 146
INDEX......Page 154
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