Ebook: Answering to the Language: Essays on Modern Writers

From Yeats to Les Murray, Auden to the Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse,?Teaching English' to?The New Victorians', this is C.K. Stead in full flight analysing literature and the world around him in key essays.;Cover; Title Page; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION: AT THE GRAVES OF YEATS; ONE : POETRY; POETRY; STENDHAL'S MIRROR AND YEATS'S LOOKING-GLASS: A RECONSIDERATION OF THE TOWER; YEATS THE EUROPEAN; POUND; ELIOT, ARNOLD, AND THE ENGLISH POETIC TRADITION; ELIOT: UNDER THE INFLUENCE; AUDEN' S 'SPAIN'; A.D. HOPE: AUSTRALIA'S SENIOR POET; SECOND WIND: ALLEN CURNOW'S CONTINUUM; WHAT BECAME OF MODERNISM?; THE SWARM OF HUMAN SPEECH? ROBERT DUNCAN AND DENISE LEVERTOV; JAMES K. BAXTER: THE POETAS PATRICIAN PARIAH; LES MURRAY: AUTHENTIC OZ; AT HOME WITH THE POETS; TWO : FICTION.