Money and Modernity: Pound, Williams, and the Spirit of Jefferson

by Alec Marsh

Book Overview

Marsh locates Pound and Williams firmly in the Jeffersonian tradition and examines their epic poems as manifestations of a Jeffersonian ideology in modernist terms.

The modernist poets William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound were latter-day Jeffersonians whose politics and poetry were strongly marked by the populism of the late 19th century. They were sharply aware of the social contradictions of modernization and were committed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817356959
• ISBN13: 9780817356958
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"