notes to chapter 6 239
- Stallworthy, The Complete Poems and Fragments of Wilfred Owen vol. 2, 92; the
fragment can also be viewed on the English Faculty Library website: http:www.hcu
.ox.ac.uk/jtap/warpoems.htm (last accessed May 27th 2011). - Hibberd, Owen the Poet, 114; Hipp, “By Degrees Regain[ing ] Cool Peaceful
Air in Wonder”: Wilfred Owen’s War Poetry as Psychological Therapy,” 25–49;
Words worth, “Resolution and Independence,” ll. 66–67, 167. - The visual beauty of the flares is an image that appears in many other war poems,
including Apollinaire’s Caligrammes. In “La nuit d’avril 1915,” he writes: “The sky is
starred by the Boche’s shells / The marvelous forest where I live is giving a ball / The
machine gun plays a tune in three-fourths time.. .” (Apollinaire, Calligrammes,
203). - Hipp, “By Degrees Regain[ing ] Cool Peaceful Air in Wonder,” 37.
- Yeats, Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 1892–1935, xxxiv.
- Graves, Over the Brazier, 595.
- The Sunday Times, (December 18, 1920), OEF, 14:15.
- The Daily Herald, (December 22, 1920), OEF, 14:17.
- The Daily News, December 17, 1920, OEF, 14:13.
- “Points to Note about my Sonnets” (sic) English Faculty Library, University of
Oxford V.f404r, accessible here: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/
item/5017?CISOBOX=1&REC=4 date unknown (last accessed May 28, 2011). - “Poems of Wilfred Owen,” The Daily News, 14:13.
- Times Literary Supplement ( January 6, 1921), OEF, 14:26.
- Murry, “The Poet of the War,” 705–7.
- Manchester Guardian (December 29, 1920), OEF, 14:18.
- December 26, 1936, Letters on Poetry from W. B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley (Ox-
ford: Oxford University Press, 1940). - C. Day Lewis, A Hope for Poetry, 14.
Chapter 6: The Before- and Afterlife of Meter
- Later collected as “Credo” in “A Retrospect” (Monro, Poetry and Drama; Pound,
The Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, 9). - Pound, The Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, 3
- Morrison, The Public Face of Modernism; Golston, Rhythm and Race in Modernist
Poetry and Science; Preston, Modernism’s Mythic Pose. - Pound, The Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, 12.
- Pound, “A Retrospect,” The Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, 6; “A Few Don’ts for an
Imagist” first appeared in Poetry I, 6 (March 1913). - Pound, The Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, 13.
- Pound The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 208.
- Pound, “Robert Bridges’ New Book,” Poetry Magazine, 42..
- Bridges, “Letter to a Musician on English Prosody,” 255–71.
- T. S. Eliot, “Ezra Pound, His Metric and Poetry,” To Criticize the Critic, 166
(originally published anonymously, in 1917, by Knopf ). - Pound, The Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, 11.
- Cf. Michael Golston’s discussion of this essay in chapter 1 of his provocative
Rhythm and Race in Modernist Poetry and Science.