TY  - BOOK
AU  - Howarth,Peter
TI  - The Cambridge Introduction to modernist poetry
T2  - Cambridge introductions to literature
SN  - 9780521764476
AV  - PN1271 H853 C 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Poetry, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
N1  - HKBU Library
N2  - "Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. In-depth chapters on Pound, Eliot, Yeats and the American modernists outline how formal experiments take on the new world of mass media, democracies, total war and changing religious belief. Chapters on the avant-gardes and later modernism examine how their styles shift as they try to re-make the community of readers. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English"--
ER  -