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This is the first of two volumes presenting the history of English and American poetry in the twentieth century. It covers the formative period during which the Romantic traditions of the past were abandoned or transformed and a major new literature created. The second volume, From the 1920s to the Present, will complete the history. The volumes divide in the mid-twenties because by this time what I have called the high Modernist mode was established and major ...
This is a revised and enlarged edition of the most extensive and detailed critical reading of English Romantic Poetry ever attempted in a single volume. It is both a valuable introduction to the Romantics and an influential work of literary criticism. The perspective interpretations of the major poems of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Beaddoes, Clare, and Darley-develop the themes of Romantic myth-making and the dialectical relationship ...
This is the second of two volumes that together unfold the history of modern poetry from the 1890s to the present. The first volume ended in the mid-1920s. By this time major works of high Modernist poetry had been published-T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922), Ezra Pound’s A Draft of XVI Cantos (1925), Wallace Stevens’ Harmanium (1923), D.H. Lawrence’s Birds, Beasts, and Flowers (1923)-and the critical hegemony of Eliot, which was to last for another ...
