Author |
: Sean Pryor |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 229 |
Release |
: 2017-03-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781316885598 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1316885593 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Poetry, Modernism, and an Imperfect World by : Sean Pryor
Download or read book Poetry, Modernism, and an Imperfect World written by Sean Pryor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diverse modernist poems, far from advertising a capacity to prefigure utopia or save society, understand themselves to be complicit in the unhappiness and injustice of an imperfect or fallen world. Combining analysis of technical devices and aesthetic values with broader accounts of contemporary critical debates, social contexts, and political history, this book offers a formalist argument about how these poems understand themselves and their situation, and a historicist argument about the meanings of their forms. The poetry of the canonical modernists T. S. Eliot, Mina Loy, and Wallace Stevens is placed alongside the poetry of Ford Madox Ford, better known for his novels and his criticism, and the poetry of Joseph Macleod, whose work has been largely forgotten. Focusing on the years from 1914 to 1930, the book offers a new account of a crucial moment in the history of British and American modernism.