Modernist Poetics of History: Pound, Eliot, and the Sense of the Past

by James Longenbach

Book Overview

By thoroughly examining T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound collected and uncollected writings, James Longenbach presents their understandings of the philosophical idea of history and analyzes the strategies of historical interpretation they discussed in their critical prose and embodied in their poems including history. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691067074
• ISBN13: 9780691067070
• Release Date: May 1987
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.8"