Modernist Poetics of History
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Modernist Poetics of History

Pound, Eliot, and the Sense of the Past

  1. 300 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Modernist Poetics of History

Pound, Eliot, and the Sense of the Past

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Abbreviations
  6. Introduction Modernism and Historicism
  7. One Pater and Yeats: The Dicta of the Great Critics
  8. Two I Gather the Limbs of Osiris
  9. Three Canzoni: Toward a Poem Including History
  10. Four The Perigord Phantastikon
  11. Five Three Cantos and the War Against Philology
  12. Six Truth and Calliope
  13. Seven Eeldrop and Appleplex: Eliot and Pound
  14. Eight F. H. Bradley and the "System" of History
  15. Nine The Contrived Corridors of Poems 1920
  16. Ten The Waste Land: Beyond the Frontier
  17. Notes
  18. Index