The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

by Peter Howarth

Book Overview

Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. In-depth chapters on Pound, Eliot, Yeats and the American modernists outline how formal experiments take on the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521147859
• ISBN13: 9780521147859
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"