The New Poetic: Yeats To Eliot

Author: C.K. Stead

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Price : 35.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780826479334
Publisher : Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
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Publication date : 14 April 2005
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm
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Dewey classification : 821.91209
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Pages : 208
BIC subject : Poetry & poets; Literary studies: from c 1900 -
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'Reading T. S. Eliot and reading about T. S. Eliot were equally formative experiences for my generation. One of the books about him which greatly appealed to me when I first read it ... was The New Poetic by the New Zealand poet and critic, C. K. Stead...

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C. K. Stead (1932-) was Professor of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and is now a renowned poet and novelist. His most recent novel is the acclaimed Mansfield.

Foreword to the Revised Editio; 1. Introduction; 2. W. B. Yeats, 1895-1916; An illustration of the problems; 3. 1909-1916: Poets and their Public Sonority... like a goose; 4. 1909-1916: 'Poetry' versus 'Life' Imperialists; Georgians; War poets; 5. The Social Function of Poetry Pound and the Imagists; Eliot; 6. Eliot's 'Dark Embyro' The merger of morals and aesthetics; 7. The Poetry of T. S. Eliot Affirmation and the Image; 8. Conclusion; Index; Acknowledgements

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