Quantum Poetics: Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and the Science of Modernism

by Daniel Albright

Book Overview

Quantum Poetics examines the Modernist appropriation of scientific metaphors as part of a general search for the preverbal origins of poetry. The poetic possibilities offered by developments in scientific discourse intrigued Yeats, Eliot and Pound, writers intent on remapping the general theory of poetry. Using models supplied by physicists, Yeats sought for the basic units of poetic force, both through his sequence A Vision and through his belief...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052157305X
• ISBN13: 9780521573054
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"