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Book SynopsisSanford Schwartz situates Modernist poetics in the intellectual ferment of the early twentieth century, which witnessed major developments in philosophy, science, and the arts. Beginning with the works of various philosophers--Bergson, James, Bradley, Nietzsche, and Husserl, among others--he establishes a matrix that brings together not only the pr
Trade Review"Schwartz explores several oppositions that underlie the thinking of the early modernists, and uses them as a frame for original analysis of individual essays and poems. The result is that many cliches of early literary modernism--Pound's ideogrammic method, Eliot's objective correlative--are refreshed by being placed in a larger context. One of this book's great virtues is that it uncovers the philosophical assumptions behind the new poetry without turning the poetry into philosophy."--A. Walton Litz, Times Literary Supplement
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. ix*INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*CHAPTER I. "This Invented World": Abstraction and Experience at the Turn of the Century, pg. 12*CHAPTER II. Elements of the New Poetics, pg. 50*CHAPTER III. Ezra Pound: Cultural Memory and the Visionary Imagination, pg. 114*CHAPTER IV. Incarnate Words: Eliot's Early Career, pg. 155*CONCLUSION: The New Criticism and Beyond, pg. 209*NOTES, pg. 216*INDEX, pg. 225
