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Examines T S Eliot's and Ezra Pound's criticism in terms of what the author calls the 'poetics of impersonality'. In this title, she shows that Eliot's and Pound's attempts to overcome personality merely reinstated it in a new guise.

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"'Maud Ellmann's book is vivid and original. The author is very intelligent and has done her reading with resourcefulness and penetration.'- Frank Kermode"

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      Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
      Publication Date: 23/09/2013
      ISBN13: 9780748691296, 978-0748691296
      ISBN10: 0748691294
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Examines T S Eliot's and Ezra Pound's criticism in terms of what the author calls the 'poetics of impersonality'. In this title, she shows that Eliot's and Pound's attempts to overcome personality merely reinstated it in a new guise.

      Trade Review
      "'Maud Ellmann's book is vivid and original. The author is very intelligent and has done her reading with resourcefulness and penetration.'- Frank Kermode"

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