Modernist Poetics of History : : Pound, Eliot, and the Sense of the Past / / James Longenbach.

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 inclu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1987
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 499
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Physical Description:1 online resource (300 p.)
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Table of 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