The Cambridge Introduction to modernist poetry /

"Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Howarth, Peter
Format: Printed Book
Published: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Series:Cambridge introductions to literature
Subjects:
Poetry, Modern-20th century-History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature).
Online Access:http://books.google.co.in/books?id=_KvT5PtxUkIC&pg=PR1&lpg=PR1&dq=the+cambridge+introduction+to+modernist+poetry+by+Peter+Howarth&source=bl&ots=sYVajowKML&sig=s7sf76hruF6nXzLlan1xK-ebojo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OM5yVJeKN4uRuQTj04CACw&ved=0CDkQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=the%20cambridge%20introduction%20to%20modernist%20poetry%20by%20Peter%20Howarth&f=false
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Why write like this?
  • 2. Ezra Pound
  • 3. T. S. Eliot
  • 4. W. B. Yeats
  • 5. Modernist America: Williams, Stevens, Moore
  • 6. Avant-gardism: Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, H. D.
  • 7. Why is it so difficult?
  • 8. Inside and outside modernism.

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