Description
Book SynopsisThis text provides close examinations of key poems by T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats, and many others. It considers the key techniques employed to orient and disorient the reader, such as diction, rhythm, and allusion while exploring the ideological implications of subject matter and the literary forms and structures of modernist poetry.
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Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements.
1 Introduction.
Part I Subject Matter.
2 Reflexivity.
3 Landscapes, Locations, and Texts.
4 Explorations of Consciousness.
Part II Techniques.
5 Interpreting Obscurities, Negotiating Negatives.
6 The Sound of the Poem.
7 Allusion and Quotation.
8 The Language of Modernist Poetry: Diction and Dialogue.
9 Literal and Metaphorical Language.
10 Mythology, Mythography, and Mythopoesis.
11 Who is Speaking?
Part III Form, Structure, and Evaluation.
12 Form.
13 Subjects and Objects in Modernist Lyric.
14 Temporality and Modernist Lyric.
15 The Dramatic Monologue.
16 Modernism, Epic, and the Long Poem.
17 Modernist Endings.
18 Value and Evaluation.
Glossary.
Further Reading.
Index.
