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Poetic Modernism and the Century's Wars

  • Vincent Sherry

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    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationA Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry
    PublisherJohn Wiley and Sons
    Pages11-31
    Number of pages21
    ISBN (Print)9781405129244
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Apr 23 2009

    Keywords

    • Eliot also gives himself over to retrospection on the earlier period - ... our concern was speech, and speech impelled us To purify the dialect of the tribe
    • Ezra Pound, in the Cantos he composed - his mind shifted insistently from the indignities suffered by a sixty-year-old at Pisa to the promises a young adult had cultivated in London - from the end of World War II
    • Poetic modernism and the century's wars
    • Poetics owned the moment - in illo tempore
    • Political journalism in "Studies in Contemporary Mentality"
    • Precedent ideologies most timely - A poetry of modern experience
    • Progressive discrimination - as its stipulative spirit

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