By Michael H. Whitworth
This crucial consultant to modernist poetry permits readers to make experience of a literary flow frequently considered as tough and intimidating.
- Provides shut examinations of key poems through T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, and others
- Considers key ideas hired to orient and disorient the reader, comparable to diction, rhythm, and allusion
- Explores the ideological implications of material and the literary kinds and constructions of modernist poetry
- Places modernist poetry with regards to its Victorian and Romantic predecessors
- Encourages readers to interact with the texts and make their very own interpretations, relocating clear of the query of what the poem says in favour of contemplating the impression of the poem on its reader
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