| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 370 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Classical presences |
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Classical presences.
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| Contents |
E.E. Cummings as a classical poet -- 1. Preface -- 2. Cummings and the classics -- 3. 'smoking centuries of hecatombs': Cummings and translation -- Childhood, Harvard, and Paganism -- 4. The Pagan world of goat-footed Pan -- Classics and childhood: Protectors and transgressors -- The Great War and beyond -- 6. 'a twilight smelling of Vergil': Cummings, classics, and the Great War -- 7. 'let not thy lust one threaded moment lose': Death in the Meadow -- 8. 'cast like Euridyce one brief look behind': The Post-War World -- Cummings, classics, and Modernism -- 9. Modernity and antiquity: 'smite the sounding bollox' -- A Homeric affair: Reflections on the ambitions of Modernism |
| Summary |
This volume is a major, ground-breaking study of the modernist E.E. Cummings' engagement with the classics. With his experimental form and syntax, his irreverence, and his rejection of the highbrow, there are probably few current readers who would name Cummings if asked to identify 20th-century Anglophone poets in the Classical tradition. But for most of his life, and even for ten or twenty years after his death, this is how many readers and critics did see Cummings. He specialised in the study of classical literature as an undergraduate at Harvard, and his contemporaries saw him as a 'pagan' poet or a 'Juvenalian' satirist, with an Aristophanic sense of humour. In E.E. Cummings' Modernism and the Classics, Alison Rosenblitt aims to recover for the contemporary reader this lost understanding of Cummings as a classicizing poet |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-357) and indexes |
| Subject |
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962 -- Themes, motives
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| SUBJECT |
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962 fast |
| Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Themes, motives
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191821332 |
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0191821330 |
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9780191079870 |
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0191079871 |
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