british poetry in the age of modernism

But for all his insistence that the object is ‘particularly itself’, what leaps out is the state of the artist’s mind (‘Isaw’) i ...

the same, because the struggle to sound direct had overwhelmed any personal expression. To ensure it does not abstract from the ...

of intelligence, of which an important function is the discernment of exactly what, and how much, we feel in any given situation ...

But although Pound’s political individualism remained as forthright as ever in hisNew Ageseries ‘Studies in Contemporary Mentali ...

form and content which was the original artistic expression of that freedom. The purported classicism of ‘Tradition and the Indi ...

there can be nothing foreign to the poet’s self-expression, because by making the meaning of the poem dependent on the ahistoric ...

alternation of points of view, it also means that no moment stands on its own account: ‘no idea is isolated, but is what it is o ...

hence becomeunconditionedby any private history or experience, for that Tradition ironises all contingent points of view.^141 M. ...

the individual artist, with all that it implies about a difference between internal and external, one person and another. ‘The p ...

Tradition – but all share the Romantic desire for poetry at one with itself, free from exterior determination, ‘acting creativel ...

in Coleridge’s binary opposition between poetry which iseitherorganic ormechanical, from within or from without – a gesture whos ...

to the prosaic absence of sound-pattern, since there would be no point in prose poetry if the audience didn’t know they were poe ...

Yet perhaps some of this same internal externality has been residually present in the organic tradition all along, tucked inside ...

chapter 2 Edward Thomas in ecstasy The list of poets who might have been published inGeorgian Poetry crosses some interesting bo ...

Yet the one other Georgian poet whom Thomas was very interested in was the one poet who was a Georgian and by all accounts shoul ...

himself had been seeking for so long, combining his desire to ‘wring the necks of all my rhetoric’, as he described it to Frost, ...

would be a remarkable declaration of Thomas’s poetic alienation from the language of trees and birds, were it not for what Thoma ...

always present, Thomas did not make his own the central focus of his poetry; indeed, he fictionalised his own suicide attempt as ...

of consciousness – a preacher who exhorts the crowd to ‘forget yourselves in prayer, forget yourselves in love’ – and the second ...

wonderful sense of humanity and lightness, making us regard our ordinary personality in its dusty stock of little thoughts or fe ...