Ebook: Modernist poetics of history : Pound, Eliot, and the sense of the past
- Tags: American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Historical poetry American -- History and criticism. Eliot T. S. -- (Thomas Stearns) -- 1888-1965 -- Knowledge -- History. Pound Ezra -- 1885-1972 -- Knowledge -- History. Modernism (Literature) -- United States. Pound Ezra -- 1885-1972. Eliot T. S. -- (Thomas Stearns) -- 1888-1965. American
- Series: Princeton Legacy Library
- Year: 1987
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- City: Princeton, N.J., United States
- Language: English
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By thoroughly examining T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound collected and uncollected writings, James Longenbach presents their understandings of the philosophical idea of history and analyzes the strategies of historical interpretation they discussed in their critical prose and embodied in their poems including history."
Originally published in 1987.
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