The Underworld in Twentieth-Century Poetry: From Pound and Eliot to Heaney and Walcott

by Michael Thurston

Book Overview

The hero s descent into the Underworld is not only one of the oldest stories in western literature; it is also one of the most often retold. Why do so many modern poets - British and American, black and white, male and female, from the metropole and from the margins - stage Underworld descents in their works? Through a series of contextualized close readings, this study traces the cultural work performed by modern deployments of the classical narrative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230620469
• ISBN13: 9780230620469
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.3"