Pound, Frost, Moore, and Poetic Precision: Science in Modernist American Poetry

by Barry Ahearn

Pound, Frost, Moore and Poetic Precision: Science in American Modernist Poetry examines three major poets in light of the demand that poetry aspire to scientific precision. The critical insistence that poetry be precise affected every one of these poets, and looking at how they responded to this insistence offers a new perspective on their achievements and, by extension, twentieth-century poetry in general. Ezra Pound sought to associate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030365433
• ISBN13: 9783030365431
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"