Poetry, Modernism, and an Imperfect World

This book shows how modernist poetry understood itself to be complicit in the social injustice and unhappiness of its time.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Ford's fall; 3. Eliot's line; 4. Loy's cries; 5. Stevens's accidence; 6. Macleod's signs; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Sean Pryor is Senior Lecturer in English in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He works on nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry and poetics. He is the author of W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and the Poetry of Paradise (2011), and co-editor of Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies (with David Trotter, not yet published). He also co-edits the journal Affirmations: Of the Modern.

Summary

This book shows how modernist poetry understood itself to be complicit in the social injustice and unhappiness of its time. It will appeal to general readers with an interest in poetry, to scholars and students interested in the theory of poetry and the history of the concept of poetry, and to scholars and students working in modernist studies and on twentieth-century literature.

Product details

• Authors: Sean Pryor, Pryor Sean
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781316635629
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63562-9
• No. of pages: 227
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Poetry anthologies (various poets), Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Biography, Literature and Literary studies