The Birth of Modernism: Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, and the Occult

by Leon Surette

Book Overview

While W.B. Yeats' occultism has long been acknowledged, Surette is the first to show that Ezra Pound's early intimacy with Yeats was based largely on a shared interest in the occult, and that Pound's The Cantos is a deeply occult work. Surette argues that Pound's editing of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land was not motivated primarily by stylistic concerns, as has generally been contended by the New Critics, but by thematic considerations. In fact, it was...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773512438
• ISBN13: 9780773512436
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"