Theorists of Modernist Poetry

Exploring the work of T.S. Eliot, T.E. Hulme and Ezra Pound - this book offers invaluable insight into the modernist movement and demonstrates the impact of these influential theorists on the shape and value of English Literature.

Modernist poetry heralded a radical new aesthetic of experimentation, pioneering new verse forms and subjects. This volume examines three of the most influential figures of the modernist movement, and argues that we cannot dissociate their bold, inventive poetic forms from their profoundly engaged theories of social and political reform.

'No one can understand the revolution that was Modernism in Anglo-America without somefamiliarity with the theoretical and critical writings of Eliot and Poundand before them, T. E. Hulme ... Rebecca Beasley's Theorists of Modernist Poetry provides newcomers to this field with an excellent introduction to the complex strains that inform the poetic theories in question and argues convincingly that, however problematic the later politics of Eliot and Pound, the legacy of their poetics remains crucial today.' Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University "In addition to their experimental poetry, says Beasley (English and humanities, U. of London), the three towering figures of early 20th-century English literature are important as the primary theorists of the modernist tradition. She traces the formation of the literary values they established and disseminated through critical essays and editorial authority." -- Book News Inc., August 2008

Autorentext

Rebecca Beasley teaches in the School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London, and is the author of Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism (2007).

Inhalt

Why Eliot, Hulme and Pound? Key Ideas 1. Modes of Aestheticism: Early Influences 2. Philosophical Details: The Image and the Objective Correlative 3. Classicism and the Critique of Democracy 4. The Historical Sense 5. The Great War and the Long Poem 6. Modernism and the Ideal Society After Eliot, Hulme and Pound Further Reading