british poetry in the age of modernism

Metre gives to the poet’s words aformwhich is itself a direct expression of the emotion which the words enclose. Not only does t ...

imply, suggest; seek, while never too hotly pursuing; find, but never definitely articulate; hold you out their meaning, but wit ...

triumphantly, ‘Poetry is the image of man and nature’ ( 752 ). No wonder that Monro’s article on Imagism remarked that ‘Wordswor ...

come to the intellectual and emotional complex) must be in harmony, they must form an organism, they must be an oak sprung from ...

vividly present in the turn to discipline and the subsequent rejection of all humanist art; the complete self-determination of t ...

First the particular faculty of mind to see things as they really are, and apart from the conventional ways in which you have be ...

conventions mediate between the artist’s vision and his expression of that vision. Organicism means that there is no excess of a ...

weaving arabesques out of other men’s “units of form” ’.^69 Bergson compared his absolute perspective to reading a novel: The au ...

of editorial policy. Shortly afterwards, Rupert Brooke informed Gwen Raverat that he, de la Mare, Gibson, Abercrombie and Davies ...

indirection and on a mismatch of form and content have a politics attached to them, that the individual psyche must not be compr ...

of utter individuals would be as homogeneous as a world of identical people, because there would be no common criteria to distin ...

a strong case for its prescience of modernist thought.^90 In these letters, Schiller advocates the aesthetic as an education in ...

to what is signified in the case of scholastic understanding, the language of genius springs from thought as by an inner necessi ...

simultaneously totally personal and wholly impersonal, a paradox which reappears undiminished in Pound’s discussion of the Imagi ...

from his infinite inward capacities and join them to the sensuous, natural but unfree powers of the naı ̈ve. Yet this triumphant ...

preoccupation with “treatment”’.^102 ‘Treatment’ has one eye on the audience and one on the subject, and so cannot be wholly ‘di ...

draws attention to itself, and what we get, in truth, is less the fact than the constatation of it: all those negatives draw att ...

manifest in May Sinclair’s reply to Monro’s assertion that Imagism was not the only direct mode of poetry around: The Image is n ...

ostensibly justified by the direct passion of his unlettered speakers. For all his pouring forth, though, a self-conscious direc ...

Gibson’s verse, like Masefield’s, aims at directness through the thoughts and attitudes of working-class life, using deliberatel ...