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Reading Modernist Poetry
Michael H. Whitworth
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Description for Reading Modernist Poetry
Hardback. This text provides close examinations of key poems by T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats, and many others. It considers the key techniques employed to orient and disorient the reader, such as diction, rhythm, and allusion while exploring the ideological implications of subject matter and the literary forms and structures of modernist poetry. Series: Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 239 x 27. Weight in Grams: 536.
This essential guide to modernist poetry enables readers to make sense of a literary movement often regarded as difficult and intimidating.
This essential guide to modernist poetry enables readers to make sense of a literary movement often regarded as difficult and intimidating.
- Provides close examinations of key poems by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, and others
- Considers key techniques employed to orient and disorient the reader, such as diction, rhythm, and allusion
- Explores the ideological implications of subject matter and the literary forms and structures of modernist poetry
- Places modernist poetry in relation to its Victorian and Romantic predecessors
- Encourages readers to engage with the texts and make their own interpretations, moving away from the question of what the poem says ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405167314
SKU
V9781405167314
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99-50
About Michael H. Whitworth
Michael H. Whitworth is University Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature, and a Tutorial Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He is the author of Einstein?s Wake: Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature (2001) and Virginia Woolf (2005), and of other articles and chapters on modernist literature. He edited Modernism: A Guide to Criticism (2007), and he is an editor of the Review of ... Read more
Reviews for Reading Modernist Poetry
"It is well structured, well researched, clearly written, and full of innovative insights." (M/C Reviews, September 2010)