This essential guide to modernist poetry enables readers to make
sense of a literary movement often regarded as difficult and
intimidating.
* Provides close examinations of key poems by T. S. Eliot, Ezra
Pound, W. B. Yeats, and others
* Considers key techniques employed to orient and disorient the
reader, such as diction, rhythm, and allusion
* Explores the ideological implications of subject matter and the
literary forms and structures of modernist poetry
* Places modernist poetry in relation to its Victorian and
Romantic predecessors
* Encourages readers to engage with the texts and make their own
interpretations, moving away from the question of what the poem
says in favour of considering the effect of the poem on its
reader
Table of Content
Preface and Acknowledgements.
1 Introduction.
Part I Subject Matter.
2 Reflexivity.
3 Landscapes, Locations, and Texts.
4 Explorations of Consciousness.
Part II Techniques.
5 Interpreting Obscurities, Negotiating Negatives.
6 The Sound of the Poem.
7 Allusion and Quotation.
8 The Language of Modernist Poetry: Diction and Dialogue.
9 Literal and Metaphorical Language.
10 Mythology, Mythography, and Mythopoesis.
11 Who is Speaking?
Part III Form, Structure, and Evaluation.
12 Form.
13 Subjects and Objects in Modernist Lyric.
14 Temporality and Modernist Lyric.
15 The Dramatic Monologue.
16 Modernism, Epic, and the Long Poem.
17 Modernist Endings.
18 Value and Evaluation.
Glossary.
Further Reading.
Index.
About the author
Michael H. Whitworth is University Lecturer in
Twentieth-Century Literature, and a Tutorial Fellow of Merton
College, Oxford. He is the author of Einstein?s Wake:
Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature (2001) and
Virginia Woolf (2005), and of other articles and chapters on
modernist literature. He edited Modernism: A Guide to
Criticism (2007), and he is an editor of the Review of
English Studies.
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