Notes
INTRODUCTION
1 Peter Finch, ‘The Poetry Wars are Not Over Yet’, inThe Writer’s Handbook
2003 , ed. Barry Turner (London: Macmillan, 2002 ), pp. 118 – 46 (p. 118 ).
2 The Nation’s Favourite Poems(London: BBC Books, 1996 ).
3 For example, Andrew Motion,Edward Thomas(London: Hutchinson, 1981 ),
p. 7. The attempt to shape public taste for poetry on a modernist paradigm is
evident in F. R. Leavis,New Bearings in English Poetry(London: Chatto &
Windus, 1932 ) and continues in revisionist studies such as C. K. Stead’sThe
New Poetic(London: Hutchinson, 1964 ) and Robert Ross,The Georgian
Revolt(Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1965 ).
4 T. S. Eliot, ‘Reflections onVers Libre’,New Statesman, 3 March 1917 , pp. 518 –
19. T. S. Eliot, ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’, in hisSelected Essays
(London: Faber & Faber, 1951 ), pp. 14 – 21.
5 See Peter Nicholls,Modernisms(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995 ) and Steve
Giles,Theorizing Modernism: Essays in Critical Theory(London: Routledge,
1993 ).
6 Ross,The Georgian Revolt,p. 243.
7 Thomas Hardy,The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy, ed. Michael Millgate
(London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1984 ), p. 422 ; Ezra Pound, letter to
T. C. Wilson, 30 October 1934 ,inSelected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907 – 1941 ,
ed.D.D. Paige (London: Faber & Faber, 1971 ), p. 248 , T. S. Eliot,After
Strange Gods(Faber & Faber, 1934 ), p. 55.
8 InA Tribute to Wilfred Owen, ed. T. J. Walsh ([Birkenhead]: Birkenhead
Institute, 1964 ), p. 28 ;Letters on Poetry from W. B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley,
ed. Dorothy Wellesley (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1940 ), p. 113.
9 Cf. Stan Smith,The Origins of Modernism: Eliot, Pound, Yeats and the
Rhetorics of Renewal(London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994 ).
10 Leonard Diepeveen,The Difficulties of Modernism(New York: Routledge,
2003 ), p. 12.
11 Arthur Waugh, ‘The New Poetry’,Quarterly Review 226 ( 1916 ), 365 – 86 (pp.
369 , 366 , 370 ).
12 Ezra Pound, ‘Drunken Helots and Mr Eliot’,Egoist 4 ( 1917 ), 72 – 4 , repr. in
Ezra Pound’s Poetry and Prose: Contributions to Periodicals, ed. Lea Baechler,
200