Modernist poetics of history : Pound, Eliot, and the sense of the past / by James Longenbach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Longenbach, James, author.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Historical poetry, American--History and criticism.

Historical poetry, American.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965--Knowledge--History.

Eliot, T. S.

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972--Knowledge--History.

Pound, Ezra.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1987]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By thoroughly examining T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound collected and uncollected writings, James Longenbach presents their understandings of the philosophical idea of history and analyzes the strategies of historical interpretation they discussed in their critical prose and embodied in their poems including history."Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction. Modernism and Historicism

Chapter One. Pater and Yeats: The Dicta of the Great Critics

Chapter Two. I Gather the Limbs of Osiris

Chapter Three. Canzoni: Toward a Poem Including History

Chapter Four. The Perigord Phantastikon

Chapter Five. Three Cantos and the War Against Philology

Chapter Six. Truth and Calliope

Chapter Seven. Eeldrop and Appleplex: Eliot and Pound

Chapter Eight. F. H. Bradley and the "System" of History

Chapter Nine. The Contrived Corridors of Poems 1920

Chapter Ten. The Waste Land: Beyond the Frontier

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages [239]-279.

ISBN:

9780691637952

0691637954

9780691609720

0691609721

9781400858514

1400858518

OCLC:

884013228