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49. 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).


50. 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.


51. 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).


52. Hipp, “By Degrees Regain[ing ] Cool Peaceful Air in Wonder,” 37.


53. Yeats, Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 1892–1935, xxxiv.


54. Graves, Over the Brazier, 595.


55. The Sunday Times, (December 18, 1920), OEF, 14:15.


56. The Daily Herald, (December 22, 1920), OEF, 14:17.


57. The Daily News, December 17, 1920, OEF, 14:13.


58. “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).


59. “Poems of Wilfred Owen,” The Daily News, 14:13.


60. Times Literary Supplement ( January 6, 1921), OEF, 14:26.


61. Murry, “The Poet of the War,” 705–7.


62. Manchester Guardian (December 29, 1920), OEF, 14:18.


63. December 26, 1936, Letters on Poetry from W. B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley (Ox-
    ford: Oxford University Press, 1940).


64. C. Day Lewis, A Hope for Poetry, 14.

Chapter 6: The Before- and Afterlife of Meter

1. Later collected as “Credo” in “A Retrospect” (Monro, Poetry and Drama; Pound,
   The Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, 9).


2. Pound, The Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, 3


3. Morrison, The Public Face of Modernism; Golston, Rhythm and Race in Modernist
   Poetry and Science; Preston, Modernism’s Mythic Pose.


4. Pound, The Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, 12.


5. 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).


6. Pound, The Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, 13.


7. Pound The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 208.


8. Pound, “Robert Bridges’ New Book,” Poetry Magazine, 42..


9. Bridges, “Letter to a Musician on English Prosody,” 255–71.


10. T. S. Eliot, “Ezra Pound, His Metric and Poetry,” To Criticize the Critic, 166
    (originally published anonymously, in 1917, by Knopf ).


11. Pound, The Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, 11.


12. Cf. Michael Golston’s discussion of this essay in chapter 1 of his provocative
    Rhythm and Race in Modernist Poetry and Science.