
- 300 pages
- English
- PDF
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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
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction Modernism and Historicism
- One Pater and Yeats: The Dicta of the Great Critics
- Two I Gather the Limbs of Osiris
- Three Canzoni: Toward a Poem Including History
- Four The Perigord Phantastikon
- Five Three Cantos and the War Against Philology
- Six Truth and Calliope
- Seven Eeldrop and Appleplex: Eliot and Pound
- Eight F. H. Bradley and the "System" of History
- Nine The Contrived Corridors of Poems 1920
- Ten The Waste Land: Beyond the Frontier
- Notes
- Index