british poetry in the age of modernism

(Axel Boer) #1

‘A Trampwoman’s Tragedy’ 161 – 162
‘The Voice’ 163
‘The Voice of Things’ 171 – 172
‘The Voice of the Thorn’ 149 – 150
‘The Walk’ 176 – 177
‘Your Last Drive’ 174 – 175
Heaney, Seamus, 2 , 11 , 189 – 190
criticism of Owen 191
Hegel, G. W. F. 35
on prosody 13
Hobsbaum, Philip 11
Hodgson, Ralph 31 , 48 , 96
Housman, A. E. 64
Hulme, T. E. 28 , 41
‘Romanticism and Classicism’ 44 , 50
organic form in 26 , 34 – 39
published by Monro 6 , 27 , 32
seealso Classical and Romantic


Imagism 5 , 8 , 27 , 31 , 34 , 60
dependence on Schiller’s OntheNaı ̈veand
Sentimental 42 – 44 , 45 – 48 , 112
DesImagistes 27 , 28 , 31
origins in Wordsworth 24 , 32
relations with GeorgianPoetry 29 – 32
irony 26 , 56 – 57


James, William 92
Jefferies, Richard 92


Kant, Immanuel 159
CritiqueofJudgement 20 , 41 , 43 , 161 , 163 ,
191 – 192
Kennedy, Bart 138 , 139
Kermode, Frank 41


Larkin, Philip 2 , 5 , 7 , 176
on modernism and Englishness 10 – 11
RequiredWriting 10 , 131 , 143
Lawrence, D. H. 28 , 38 , 48 , 65 , 67 , 146
criticism of Hardy 149
Leask, Nigel 23
Leavis, F. R. 64 , 125
criticism of Thomas 106
Levenson, M. H. 34
Lowell, Amy 53


Marsh, Edward 6 , 38 , 48
Masefield, John 24 , 33 , 48 – 49
Mew, Charlotte 64
Middleton Murry, John 5 , 38
Millgate, Michael 151
modernist poetry, definitions of 5
difficulty of 1 , 10
English tradition and 11
Monro, Harold 5


seealso Poetry Bookshop; PoetryReview
Muldoon, Paul 1
naı ̈ve and sentimental (literary category)
42 – 45 , 163
Imagism and 111
Pater and 75
seealso Schiller
Najarian, James 193 , 196
Nancy, Jean-Luc 57 , 58 , 106 – 107 , 192
New Numbers 28
organic form 22
autonomy in 8 – 10 , 20 – 21 , 23 , 26 , 42 , 60 – 63
Coleridge on 21 – 22 , 25 , 61
Georgian rejection of 60 – 63 , 148 , 155 , 190
Hulme and 36
Pater and 76
Pound’s difficulties with 181
principles of 24
Schopenhauer and 164
silence and 121
Oswald, Alice 1
Owen, Wilfred 2 , 3 , 4 , 6 , 60 , 146
aesthetics and 60 , 184 , 187 – 193 , 195 – 196 ,
197 – 199
free verse in 7
impersonality in 183 – 184 , 189 , 195 , 199
Keats and 193 – 194
pity in 193 – 199
Sassoon and 199
sexuality of 193 , 195 – 199
Symbolist influence on 11
Wilde and 194 – 195 , 198
works:
‘Apologia Pro Poemate Meo’ 186 – 188 ,
188 – 189
‘Arms and the Boy’ 198
‘Beauty’ 192
‘Le Christianisme’ 182
‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ 184 – 185
‘Greater Love’ 196 – 197
‘I saw his round mouth’s crimson’ 196
‘Insensibility’ 189 , 190 – 191 , 192 – 193 , 199
‘Preface’ 185 , 188 , 193
‘The Send-Off ’ 198
‘Strange Meeting’ 198
Pater, Walter 43 , 54 , 197
Pound and 74
Thomas on 50 , 73 – 77
Phillips, Adam 118
Poetry and Drama(continuation ofPoetry
Review) 28
Poetry Bookshop (Monro) 6 , 23 , 26 – 28
Poetry Review 6 , 24 , 27 – 33

Index 223
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