Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

Informationen zum Autor Peter Howarth is Senior Lecturer in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London. Klappentext A guide to reading modernist poetry in English: its pleasures, frustrations, powers and problems. Zusammenfassung An introduction to the forms! politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English! for students and readers new to it. As well as concise! penetrating accounts of individual poets' work! it includes chapters on avant-gardism! deliberately difficult art and the modernist/postmodernist divide. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Why write like this?; 2. Ezra Pound; 3. T. S. Eliot; 4. W. B. Yeats; 5. Modernist America: Williams, Moore, Stevens; 6. Avant-gardism: Loy, Stein, H. D.; 7. Why is it so difficult?; 8. Inside and outside modernism; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Howarth, Peter (Queen Mary University of London) Howarth
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.11.2011
• EAN: 9780521147859
• ISBN: 978-0-521-14785-9
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 230 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature; Cambridge Introductions to Literature; Cambridge Introductions to Lit
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama