Title The poetics of impersonality : T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound / Maud Ellmann

Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 207 pages) Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Principal Short Forms of Citation -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Ego Scriptor -- PART 1: T. S. ELIOT -- Chapter 1: The Loop in Time -- Chapter II: The Spider and the Weevil: Self and Writing in Eliot's Early Poetry -- Chapter III: The Waste Land: A Sphinx without a Secret -- Chapter IV: The Figure in the Four Quartets -- PART II: EZRA POUND -- Chapter V: "What part ob yu is deh poEM?" -- Chapter VI: The Erasure of History -- Coda -- Index Summary GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748691296','ISBN:9780748691302']);In this classic work, Maud Ellmann examines T. S. Eliot's and Ezra Pound's criticism in terms of what she calls the 'poetics of impersonality'. She convincingly shows that Eliot's and Pound's attempts to overcome personality merely reinstated it in a new guise. And her superb and entirely original readings of the major poems of the modernist canon have earned a lasting place in criticism.Following an analysis of Eliot's relation to Bergson, Ellmann goes on to analyse Eliot's 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' and the later After Strange Gods, the early poems, The Waste Land, and Four Quartets. She then turns to Pound's Personae, particularly 'Mauberley', and the Cantos. Ellmann looks for the contradictions inherent in modernist literary ideology and deftly teases out their implications. Stylish and perceptive, this book marked the debut of a major literary critic, and it has as much resonance today as it did on first publication." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 fast Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 fast Eliot, T. S. 1888-1965 gnd Pound, Ezra 1885-1972 gnd Subject American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism Self in literature. Identity (Psychology) in literature. Persona (Literature) Personality in literature. Poetry -- Psychological aspects LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General. American poetry Identity (Psychology) in literature Persona (Literature) Personality in literature Poetry -- Psychological aspects Self in literature Persönlichkeit Motiv Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781474468053 1474468055 9780748691302 0748691308 9780748691319 0748691316

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