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Klappentext In this 2000 collection! an international team of contributors examine relationships between modernist poetry and place. Zusammenfassung In this 2000 collection! an international team of contributors examine relationships between modernist poetry and place in the work of poets such as Ezra Pound! Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore. The book brings the work of major poets into juxtaposition with more marginal modernists such as Basil Bunting and Dylan Thomas. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction: locating modernisms: an overview Alex Davis and Lee Jenkins; 1. MacDiarmid in Montrose Robert Crawford; 2. Bunting and Welsh Richard Caddel; 3. Antithesis of place in the poetry and life of David Jones Thomas Dilworth; 4. 'Shut in a yower of words': Dylan Thomas' Modernism John Goodby and Christopher Wigginton; 5. 'Literally, for this': metonymies of national identity in Edward Thomas, Yeats and Auden Stan Smith; 6. Reactions to their Burg: Irish Modernist poets of the 1930s Alex Davis; 7. Pound's places Peter Nicholls; 8. Wallace Stevens and America Lee Jenkins; 9. Locating the Lyric: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop and World War II Fiona Green; 10. 'In the published city': the New York School of Poets Geoff Ward; 11. Modernism deferred: Langston Hughes, Harlem and Jazz Montage Peter Brooker; Index.
