Modernist War Poetry: Combat Gnosticism and the Sympathetic Imagination, 1914-19

by Jamie Wood

This study examines the work of the principle architects of Anglo-American modernist poetics - T.S. Eliot, H.D., Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Edward Thomas and Wallace Stevens - and their response to the challenge of combatant war poetries. It argues that these civilian poets sought to negotiate directly with the combatant's gnosticism, specifically with the combatant's assertion that only those present at a catastrophe could properly represent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474497756
• ISBN13: 9781474497756
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 272 Pages