Emphasizing the interplay of aesthetic forms and religious modes, Sean Pryor examines the endlessly reiterated longing for paradise that features throughout the work of W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound.
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Cover -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Texts -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 The Old Commandment -- 2 Embarking for Cythera -- 3 Hollow Lands and Holy Lands -- 4 Shut Gardens -- 5 Ever Turning other Worlds -- B…
Emphasizing the interplay of aesthetic forms and religious modes, Sean Pryor's ambitious study takes up the endlessly reiterated longing for paradise that features throughout the works of W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound. Throughout his study, Pryor argues that Yeats and Pound reconcei…
Emphasizing the interplay of aesthetic forms and religious modes, the author's ambitious study takes up the endlessly reiterated longing for paradise that features throughout the works of W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound. Yeats and Pound define poetry in terms of paradise and paradise …
Diverse modernist poems, far from advertising a capacity to prefigure utopia or save society, understand themselves to be complicit in the unhappiness and injustice of an imperfect or fallen world. Combining analysis of technical devices and aesthetic values with broader account…
Diverse modernist poems, far from advertising a capacity to prefigure utopia or save society, understand themselves to be complicit in the unhappiness and injustice of an imperfect or fallen world. Combining analysis of technical devices and aesthetic values with broader account…
This book shows how modernist poetry understood itself to be complicit in the social injustice and unhappiness of its time.