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By thoroughly examining T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound collected and uncollected writings, James Longenbach presents their understandings of the philosophical idea of history and analyzes the strategies of historical interpretation they discussed in their critical prose and embodied in their poems including history." Originally published in 1987. The



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*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xiii*Abbreviations, pg. xvii*Introduction. Modernism and Historicism, pg. 1*Chapter One. Pater and Yeats: The Dicta of the Great Critics, pg. 29*Chapter Two. I Gather the Limbs of Osiris, pg. 45*Chapter Three. Canzoni: Toward a Poem Including History, pg. 62*Chapter Four. The Perigord Phantastikon, pg. 79*Chapter Five. Three Cantos and the War Against Philology, pg. 96*Chapter Six. Truth and Calliope, pg. 131*Chapter Seven. Eeldrop and Appleplex: Eliot and Pound, pg. 152*Chapter Eight. F. H. Bradley and the "System" of History, pg. 164*Chapter Nine. The Contrived Corridors of Poems 1920, pg. 177*Chapter Ten. The Waste Land: Beyond the Frontier, pg. 200*Notes, pg. 239*Index, pg. 267

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691609720, 978-0691609720
      ISBN10: 0691609721
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      Book Synopsis

      By thoroughly examining T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound collected and uncollected writings, James Longenbach presents their understandings of the philosophical idea of history and analyzes the strategies of historical interpretation they discussed in their critical prose and embodied in their poems including history." Originally published in 1987. The



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*Acknowledgments, pg. xiii*Abbreviations, pg. xvii*Introduction. Modernism and Historicism, pg. 1*Chapter One. Pater and Yeats: The Dicta of the Great Critics, pg. 29*Chapter Two. I Gather the Limbs of Osiris, pg. 45*Chapter Three. Canzoni: Toward a Poem Including History, pg. 62*Chapter Four. The Perigord Phantastikon, pg. 79*Chapter Five. Three Cantos and the War Against Philology, pg. 96*Chapter Six. Truth and Calliope, pg. 131*Chapter Seven. Eeldrop and Appleplex: Eliot and Pound, pg. 152*Chapter Eight. F. H. Bradley and the "System" of History, pg. 164*Chapter Nine. The Contrived Corridors of Poems 1920, pg. 177*Chapter Ten. The Waste Land: Beyond the Frontier, pg. 200*Notes, pg. 239*Index, pg. 267

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