Modern Poetry and the TraditionThis study presents the revolutionary thesis that English poetry and poetic theory were deflected from their richest line of development by the scientific rationalism that came with Hobbes and has continued its restrictive influence to the present day, when such poets as Yeats and Eliot have begun the reestablishment of the earlier line of development. Originally published in 1939. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value. |
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PAGE | 18 |
ш Metaphysical Poetry and Propaganda | 39 |
Symbolist Poetry and the Ivory Tower | 54 |
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abstract Allen Tate allusion Anima Mundi attempt Auden Byzantium century Coleridge complex conception concrete consider context contrast critical revolution dead death didactic Donne Donne's dramatic Dryden Edmund Wilson effect elements Eliot Elizabethan English poetry example experience fancy feel figure Fisher King function give Grail Hobbes I. A. Richards illustrate imagery imagination important indicate intellectual ironical irony John Crowe Ransom Keats lines living logical MacLeish's Madame Sosostris matter meaning merely metaphor metaphysical poetry method mind modern poets moon nature neoclassic object obviously passage phase play poem poetic prose protagonist Ransom's reader reference relation Romantic Sailing to Byzantium satire sense sentimentality serious seventeenth song sort stanza statement structure suggests symbol symbolist symbolist poetry T. S. Eliot Tate Tate's theme thing tion tone tradition tragedy unity vers de société Victorian Vision waste land Wordsworth Yeats Yeats's
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