british poetry in the age of modernism

are part of his aim to rewrite the history of modern poetry, so that modernism becomes not a triumph over Georgian sentimental n ...

about war. Hardy’s notebooks are full of French and German poets, as well as Nietzsche and Schopenhauer; de la Mare wanted his p ...

the archetypal art form because the arbitrary character of its medium – language – ensured the maximum amount of freedom from ma ...

resistance of the letter to any final critical judgement, it is by the same token unable to communicate without such judgement.^ ...

chapter 1 Inside and outside modernism 1 Like many of theLyrical Ballads, Wordsworth’s ‘Simon Lee’ ends with a sense of disappoi ...

lesson about the virtue of feeling let down is a preparation for the ending of ‘Simon Lee’, of course, where the speaker’s ‘mour ...

were improper for any socially respectable situation. With this hint at the respectability of the audience addressed (‘my gentle ...

Jingles and cliche ́s such as ‘poorest of the poor’ and, earlier, ‘sole survivor’ betray a certain ready-to-hand terminology tha ...

Coleridge also felt let down by this poem, but on account of its aesthetics rather than its moral uncertainty. InBiographia Lite ...

fruit), but from the way it coheres according to its own internal principles while imitating something else, the same in the dif ...

when Wordsworth, having conceded that rhyme and metre obviously do make a difference to ordinary language ‘of themselves’, insis ...

from outside with a ‘pre-determined form, not necessarily arising out of the properties of the material’, like moulded clay.^11 ...

emotions or divided loyalties; the poem is not wholly autonomous because the situation it talks about is not. Its formal exterio ...

Bookshop, were both theorising about the sort of poetic mind that would produce such poems, without cliche ́, self-consciousness ...

Rather than eradicating traditional verse forms, modernist poetry changed the justification for them. In order to argue for free ...

as the Romanticism it despised, for the very terms of the opposition are taken from two of Coleridge’s most influential sources, ...

anthology,Des Imagistes, followed by Aldington’sImages and Flint’s Cadences,as well as a Futurist anthology, but two volumes ofG ...

began a second phase of modernist poetics, associated with abstract geo- metric art and Eliot’s impersonal poetry.^26 In October ...

absolutely necessary for the fetters of stereotyped poetic language to be shaken off’.^28 In order for modern poetry to be moder ...

his attraction lies in the vivid picturesqueness of his romance-besprinkled page’.^33 It was not only Monro’s articles that rese ...