1st Edition
Poetry, Politics, and Culture Argument in the Work of Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams
By Harold Kaplan
Copyright 2006
296 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
290 Pages
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A salient feature of modern poetics is its direct connection with cultural history and politics. Among the great American poets of the twentieth century, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams offer a significant contrast with T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Where the latter advocated a theocentric or reactionary response to the cultural crises of modernity, the former affirmed an essentially... Read more
1: Introduction and Argument; 1: Eliot and Pound: Dissociations of Sensibility and Power; 2: Dissociations, Natural and Supernatural; 3: “The Silhouette of Man”; 4: Purgatory and Apocalypse; 5: A Problem of Order; 6: The Old Sublime; 7: The Vortex of Art; 8: Esthetic Politics; 9: Prejudice and Abstraction; 2: Stevens and Williams: The Source of Poetry; 10: “A Confidence in the World”; 11: “A Malady of the Quotidian”; 12: The Necessary Angel of Reality; 13: The Imagination as Value; 14: The Dehumanization of Art; 15: “The City as a Man”; 16: “A Peculiar Majesty”; 17: The Sign and Presence of the Human; 3: Poetry and Politics; 18: Cultural and Humanist Poetics; 19: Poetry, Culture, and Politics
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Harold Kaplan
