Pound, Yeats, Eliot

by C.K. Stead

This book is a study of Modernism, a phenomenon which the author regards as "the principal tidal movement of poetry in English in the twentieth century" and is embodied in the work of Pound and Eliot. In the analysis he confronts such basic questions as what it means to say that Yeats was a modern poet in his time, but not a Modernist, while on the other hand, Pound and Eliot were Modernists. This in turn provides a framework for the discussion of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813510759
• ISBN13: 9780813510750
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 393 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.8"