The poetics of impersonality : T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound / Maud Ellmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellmann, Maud, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965--Criticism and interpretation.

Eliot, T. S.

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972--Criticism and interpretation.

Pound, Ezra.

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

American poetry.

Self in literature.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Persona (Literature).

Personality in literature.

Poetry--Psychological aspects.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 207 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013.

Summary:

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748691296','ISBN:9780748691302']);In this classic work, Maud Ellmann examines T. S. Eliot’s and Ezra Pound’s criticism in terms of what she calls the ‘poetics of impersonality’. She convincingly shows that Eliot’s and Pound’s attempts to overcome personality merely reinstated it in a new guise. And her superb and entirely original readings of the major poems of the modernist canon have earned a lasting place in criticism.Following an analysis of Eliot’s relation to Bergson, Ellmann goes on to analyse Eliot’s ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’ and the later After Strange Gods, the early poems, The Waste Land, and Four Quartets. She then turns to Pound’s Personae, particularly ‘Mauberley’, and the Cantos. Ellmann looks for the contradictions inherent in modernist literary ideology and deftly teases out their implications. Stylish and perceptive, this book marked the debut of a major literary critic, and it has as much resonance today as it did on first publication."

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Principal Short Forms of Citation

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Ego Scriptor

PART 1: T. S. ELIOT

Chapter 1: The Loop in Time

Chapter II: The Spider and the Weevil: Self and Writing in Eliot's Early Poetry

Chapter III: The Waste Land: A Sphinx without a Secret

Chapter IV: The Figure in the Four Quartets

PART II: EZRA POUND

Chapter V: "What part ob yu is deh poEM?"

Chapter VI: The Erasure of History

Coda

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474468053

1474468055

OCLC:

1306539742