
The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Peter Howarth(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 10. November 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-0-521-14785-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
2 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
404 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-14785-9 (9780521147859)
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Person
Peter Howarth is Senior Lecturer in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London.
Content
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.