A Survey of Modernist Poetry ; And, A Pamphlet Against Anthologies

A Survey of Modernist Poetry ; And, A Pamphlet Against Anthologies

Author: Laura (Riding) Jackson

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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Makes up the collaborative study of 'Modernist' poetry by two of the twentieth century's most important and original poets. The authors produce a contemporary reaction to the early experimentation of writers such as Eliot, Pound and E E Cummings.


A Survey of Modernist Poetry ; And, A Pamphlet Against Anthologies

A Survey of Modernist Poetry ; And, A Pamphlet Against Anthologies

Author: Laura (Riding) Jackson

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13:

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Makes up the collaborative study of 'Modernist' poetry by two of the twentieth century's most important and original poets. The authors produce a contemporary reaction to the early experimentation of writers such as Eliot, Pound and E E Cummings.


The Unthronged Oracle

The Unthronged Oracle

Author: Jack Blackmore

Publisher: Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks

Published: 2016-11-01

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1861516789

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Laura Riding was a major poet whose poems, though widely admired and influential, have been little understood. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s she was 'a devout advocate of poetry' believing that 'to go to poetry is the most ambitious act of the mind'. Her subsequent renunciation of poetry in the 1940s gave rise to bemusement. Jack Blackmore tackles the causes of the neglect of Riding's poetry and establishes new and productive approaches to the poems. His close readings of fifteen poems demonstrate the progress of Collected Poems and the remarkable range and scope of her poetry. He establishes both the strength and unity of the poems and the continuity between them and her 'post-poetic' work, in particular her spiritual testament The Telling. Mark Jacobs's vivid memoir of a visit to the author in later life at her Florida home complements the work on the poems. "These essays are interesting and you have done well...You seem to me fair and just in what you say about her work.' - Robert Nye 'This is ambitious work, full of insights.' - Professor Michael Schmidtÿ


In Extremis

In Extremis

Author: Deborah Baker

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2000-11

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 0595140416

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In Extremis is hte first major biography of a major 20th century modernist.


The Birth of New Criticism

The Birth of New Criticism

Author: Donald J. Childs

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2013-12-01

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 0773589244

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Amid competing claims about who first developed the theories and practices that became known as New Criticism - the critical method that rose alongside Modernism - literary historians have generally given the lion's share of credit to William Empson and I.A. Richards. In The Birth of New Criticism Donald Childs challenges this consensus and provides a new and authoritative narrative of the movement's origins. At the centre stand Robert Graves and Laura Riding, two poet-critics who have been written out of the history of New Criticism. Childs brings to light the long-forgotten early criticism of Graves to detail the ways in which his interpretive methods and ideas evolved into the practice of "close reading," demonstrating that Graves played such a fundamental part in forming both Empson's and Richards's critical thinking that the story of twentieth-century literary criticism must be re-evaluated and re-told. Childs also examines the important influence that Riding's work had on Graves, Empson, and Richards, establishing the importance of this long-neglected thinker and critic. A provocative and cogently argued work, The Birth of New Criticism is both an important intellectual history of the movement and a sharply observed account of the cultural politics of its beginnings and legacy.


C.S. Lewis, Poetry, and the Great War 1914-1918

C.S. Lewis, Poetry, and the Great War 1914-1918

Author: John Bremer

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2012-05-31

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0739171534

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The life and work of C.S. Lewis after his conversion in 1931 is well known and his reputation shows no signs of diminishing. His earlier years have not been so well studied, particularly between the ages of 16 and 22 when he studied privately and at Oxford, served in the British army, was wounded in France, entered into his affair with Janie Moore, and wrote and published his first book of poems. To correct and augment the limited accounts of this period, Lewis’s life is presented with the general and specific background which makes it more meaningful, particularly as it throws light on his character. The romantic myth of him as a "soldier-poet" is dispelled, largely through an extensive review of the poems in "Spirits in Bondage" and the self-centered life that produced them. A valuable comparison—not to the advantage of Lewis—is drawn with two undoubted soldier-poets, Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon. The purpose is not to disparage or belittle Lewis but to show what had to be overcome in his limited and unpleasant early moral character in order to produce the devoted Christian of later years.


Cambridge Book of English Verse 1939-1975

Cambridge Book of English Verse 1939-1975

Author: Alan Bold

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1976-03-04

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780521098403

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A collection of poems by the following 19th-20th century English poets: Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Hardy, W. B. Yeats, Edward Thomas, Walter de la Mare, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen, W. H. Auden, Edwin Muir, Hugh MacDiarmid, Robert Graves, William Empson, Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, Charles Tomlinson, Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes, and Sylvia Plath.


Modernist Literary Collaborations between Women and Men

Modernist Literary Collaborations between Women and Men

Author: Russell McDonald

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1009080385

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Major figures including W. B. Yeats, Marianne Moore, D. H. Lawrence, Ford Madox Ford, and Virginia Woolf viewed 'cross-sex' collaboration as a valuable, and often subversive, strategy for bringing women and men's differing perspectives into productive dialogue while harnessing the creative potential of gendered discord. This study is the first to acknowledge collaboration between women and men as an important part of the modernist effort to 'make it new.' Drawing on current methods from textual scholarship to read modernist texts as material, socially constructed products of multiple hands, the study argues that cross-sex collaboration involved writers working not just with each other, but also with publishers and illustrators. By documenting and tracing the contours of their desire for cross-sex collaboration, we gain a new understanding of the modernists' thinking about sex and gender relations, as well as three related topics of great interest to them: marriage, androgyny, and genius.


The Rise of New Media 1750–1850

The Rise of New Media 1750–1850

Author: Julia Straub

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-05-22

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1137581689

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This monograph explores transatlantic literary culture by tracing the proliferation of ‘new media,’ such as the anthology, the literary history and the magazine, in the period between 1750 and 1850. The fast-paced media landscape out of which these publishing genres developed produced the need of a ‘memory of literature’ and a concomitant rhetoric of remembering strikingly similar to what today is called a cultural memory debate. Thus, rather than depicting the emergence of an American national literature, The Rise of New Media(1750–1850) combines impulses from media history, the history of print, the sociology of literature and canon theory to uncover nascent forms and genres of literary self-reflectivity and early stirrings of a canon debate in the Atlantic World.