Download e-book for iPad: The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry (Cambridge by Peter Howarth

By Peter Howarth

Modernist poems are the various twentieth-century's significant cultural achievements, yet also they are exertions to learn. This wide-ranging creation takes readers via modernism's most renowned poems and a few of its forgotten highlights to teach why modernists suggestion hassle and disorientation crucial for poetry within the sleek international. In-depth chapters on Pound, Eliot, Yeats and the yank modernists define how formal experiments tackle the hot international of mass media, democracies, overall conflict and altering non secular trust. Chapters at the avant-gardes and later modernism research how their types shift as they fight to re-make the neighborhood of readers. Howarth explains in a transparent and relaxing approach the way to procedure the varieties, politics and cultural options of modernist poetry in English.

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