Modernism in the Second World War
The Later Poetry of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Basil Bunting and Hugh MacDiarmid
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After a consideration of the best lyric poetry of the Second World War the writer examines those poems which responded more fully to the challenge of the war. These are the long poems of Eliot, Pound, Bunting and MacDiarmid. Through a close reading of the poems the writer demonstrates that what these radically different poets have in common in their war poems is their use of modernist techniques to transcend the particulars of the war and to assert the resilience of the human spirit and civilisation when confronted with such an unprecedented threat.
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«This is an intelligent and illuminating study of poetic modernism. Professor Alldritt is genuinely sensitive to the actual poetry involved, and to the way it relates to the historic upheavals of the early part of this century. He also puts some significant work, often unfamiliar to most readers, even informed ones, into the picture. The book is alive, interesting, and usefully thoughtful...» (M. L. Rosenthal, New York University)
«(W)e are given a provocative analysis of four wartime poems by four major twentieth-century poets, and their common concerns with language and meaning, accentuated by the war, are soundly established.» (John Baglow, Letters in Canada)
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