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Yeats to Eliot
C.K. Stead
ISBN: 9780826479334
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Edition: New edition
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A survey of modern English poetry from the new tradition established by Yeats in the 1890s through to an influential reading of Eliot, and including a reassessment of the Georgians and the influence of Pound.
'Reading T. S. Eliot and reading about T. S. Eliot were equally formative experiences for my generation. One of the books about him which greatly appealed to me when I first read it ... was The New Poetic by the New Zealand poet and critic, C. K. Stead...
| ISBN | 0826479332 | | Pages | 208 | | ISBN13 | 9780826479334
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. | | Series title | Continuum Impacts | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Publication date | 14 Apr 2005 | | Width (mm) | 129 | | DEWEY | 821.91209 | | Academic level | Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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Foreword to the Revised Editio; 1. Introduction; 2. W. B. Yeats, 1895-1916; An illustration of the problems; 3. 1909-1916: Poets and their Public Sonority... like a goose; 4. 1909-1916: 'Poetry' versus 'Life' Imperialists; Georgians; War poets; 5. The Social Function of Poetry Pound and the Imagists; Eliot; 6. Eliot's 'Dark Embyro' The merger of morals and aesthetics; 7. The Poetry of T. S. Eliot Affirmation and the Image; 8. Conclusion; Index; Acknowledgements
"'Reading T. S. Eliot and reading about T. S. Eliot were equally formative experiences for my generation. One of the books about him which greatly appealed to me when I first read it... was The New Poetic by the New Zealand poet and critic, C. K. Stead...' Seamus Heaney; 'A short but brilliant history... Essential to anyone interested in the development of modern poetry'. The Guardian"  Be the first to write a customer review
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