british poetry in the age of modernism

are insensible to soldiers’ suffering that the war continues. In the trenches, the only internal consistency is that of the inse ...

unexpectedly, he drafted a poem about it; there are only fragments left, but it is titled ‘Beauty’: The beautiful, the fair, the ...

discordant pararhyme, red/rid. The simultaneous intensity and cool dis- tance persists into the next line, too, where ‘the hurt ...

period’s homophilic writers. John Addington Symonds wrote to Wilde praising the latter’s ‘Keatsian openness at all pores to beau ...

Pity, then, is the opposite of artistic impersonality; it is the personal involvement of the artist in the work, and inDe Profun ...

sexualising it, although it may have elements of both in it. Take, for example, the fragment, ‘I saw his round mouth’s crimson’, ...

The phrase ‘Greater love’ acts as a bridge between conventional soldierly sacrifice and Owen’s complex eroticisation of it, so t ...

from Christian culture’s assumption that pleasure and guilt are insepar- able – in other words, that Owen links his love with pa ...

understood in others, and remains inseparable from the soldier he was. Illegal desire and death irresistibly combine in a letter ...

Notes INTRODUCTION 1 Peter Finch, ‘The Poetry Wars are Not Over Yet’, inThe Writer’s Handbook 2003 , ed. Barry Turner (London: M ...

James Longenbach and A. Walton Litz, 10 vols. (New York: Garland, 1991 ), II, p. 206 (henceforthEPP); T. S. Eliot,The Use of Poe ...

28 Letter of 19 May 1914 ,inSelected Letters of Edward Thomas, ed. R. George Thomas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995 ), p. ...

10 Lyrical Ballads,p. 345. 11 Samuel Taylor Coleridge,Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Kathleen Coburn (London: R ...

36 Frank Flint, review of Pound’sRipostes,inPoetry and Drama 1 ( 1913 ), 61 ; Flint, ‘The Poetry of H. D.’,Egoist 2 ( 1915 ), 72 ...

67 Coleridge,Lectures on Literature, II, p. 278. 68 Henri Bergson,Introduction to Metaphysics, trans. T. E. Hulme (London: Macmi ...

90 F. Schiller,On the Aesthetic Education of Man, pp. clxvi ff. 91 Kooy,Coleridge, Schiller and Aesthetic Education, pp. 59 – 64 ...

116 T. S. Eliot, ‘Reflections on Contemporary Poetry, I’,Egoist 4 ( 1917 ), 118 – 19 (p. 118 ). 117 T. S. Eliot, ‘Observations’, ...

Lester (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988 ), p. 11 ; Maurice Blanchot, ‘The Athenaeum’, in The Infinite Conversat ...

3 F. R. Leavis,New Bearings in English Poetry(London: Chatto & Windus, 1932 ), pp. 68 – 9. 4 Selected Letters of Edward Thom ...

26 Walter Pater,The Renaissance(London: Macmillan, 1910 ), pp. ix–x. 27 Ezra Pound, ‘I Gather the Limbs of Osiris’,New Age 10 ( ...