The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem

by Oliver Tearle

Book Overview

The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poemexplores how cultural responses to the trauma of the First World War found expression in the form of the modernist long poem. Beginning with T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Oliver Tearle reads that most famous example of the genre in comparison with lesser known long poems, such as Hope Mirrlees's Paris: A Poem, Richard Aldington's A Fool I' the Forestand Nancy Cunard's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350178179
• ISBN13: 9781350178175
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"