Reading modernist poetry / Michael H. Whitworth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitworth, Michael H.

Series:

Blackwell reading poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English poetry.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American poetry.

Reader-response criticism.

Poetry--Explication.

Poetry.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This essential guide to modernist poetry enables readers to make sense of a literary movement often regarded as difficult and intimidating. Provides close examinations of key poems by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, and othersConsiders key techniques employed to orient and disorient the reader, such as diction, rhythm, and allusionExplores the ideological implications of subject matter and the literary forms and structures of modernist poetryPlaces modernist poetry in relation to its Victorian and Romantic predecessorsEncourages readers to engage with the texts

Contents:

Reading Modernist Poetry; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part I Subject Matter; 2 Reflexivity; 3 Landscapes, Locations, and Texts; 4 Explorations of Consciousness; Part II Techniques; 5 Interpreting Obscurities, Negotiating Negatives; 6 The Sound of the Poem; 7 Allusion and Quotation; 8 The Language of Modernist Poetry: Diction and Dialogue; 9 Literal and Metaphorical Language; 10 Mythology, Mythography, and Mythopoesis; 11 Who is Speaking?; Part III Form, Structure, and Evaluation; 12 Form; 13 Subjects and Objects in Modernist Lyric

14 Temporality and Modernist Lyric15 The Dramatic Monologue; 16 Modernism, Epic, and the Long Poem; 17 Modernist Endings; 18 Value and Evaluation; Glossary; Further Reading; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612550799

9781282550797

1282550799

9781444320756

1444320750

9781444320763

1444320769

OCLC:

605037821