Poetry in the Museums of Modernism: Yeats, Pound, Moore, Stein

by Catherine E. Paul

Book Overview

This book explores the relationships between four modernist poets and the museums that helped shape their writing. During the early twentieth century, museums were trying to reach a wider audience and used displayed objects to teach that audience about art, culture, and ecology. Writers such as Yeats, Pound, Moore, and Stein borrowed strategies and techniques from museums in order to create literary modernism. Poetry in the Museums of Modernism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472112643
• ISBN13: 9780472112647
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"