Modernist Hellenism : Pound, Eliot, H. D., and the Translation of Greece / Katerina Stergiopoulou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stergiopoulou, Katerina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Greek influences.

American literature.

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

American poetry.

Hellenism in literature.

Modernism (Literature).

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

Pound, Ezra.

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

Eliot, T. S.

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961--Criticism and interpretation.

H. D.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 490 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"The first book to offer a detailed yet broad overview of the poetic engagement with Greece across the modernist period (1910s-1950s). Provides new readings of canonical and lesser-known works and presents unpublished archival materials. A resource for scholars of modern poetry, especially in its relation to translation and the classics"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction : towards a modernist Hellenism

Section I. Hellenists and modernists : from image to drama. "The some more vital equation" : writing the image between Hellenism and modernism; "The glory that was this and the grandeur that was the other" : Pound, Eliot, and Greek drama

Section II. "I don't want to write it" : measuring Greece between the wars. "What is Greece if you draw back?" : translating Hellenism into modernism; "Who fished the murex up" : the distillation of Ion

Section III: Tragedy and translation in late modernism. From Agamemnon to Herakles : Eliot's plays and the Four quartets; "Now time to go back to an effort of 1912" : Elektrifying English at St. Elizabeths; "From the dawn blaze to sunset" : the languages of the image

Section IV: The long imagist poem. Pallinodes and eidola : "catching up to the past" in H.D.'s Helen in Egypt

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Nov 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781009371445

1009371444

9781009371438

1009371436

9781009371469

1009371460