1st Edition
Critic as Scientist The modernist poetics of Ezra Pound
By Ian F. A. Bell
Copyright 1981
314 Pages
by
Routledge
314 Pages
by
Routledge
314 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1981, Critic as Scientist provides a detailed and scholarly account both of the scientific background and of contemporary artistic issues in its analysis of Ezra Pound’s poetics. During the crucial period of his years in London, Ezra Pound was striving to formulate not only a new system of poetics but also a new language through which he could both define the critic’s... Read more
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Poet as geometer 2. The seriousness of the artist 3. Correspondences: modes of idealist science 4. The vortex: shapes ancient and modern 5. Tradition and race-memory 6. Towards a conclusion: the endless sentence Notes Name index
Biography
Ian F. A. Bell
