This essential guide to modernist poetry enables readers to make sense of a literary movement often regarded as difficult and intimidating.
Provides close examinations of key poems by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, and others
Considers key techniques employed to orient and disorient the reader, such as diction, rhythm, and allusion
Explores the ideological implications of subject matter and the literary forms and structures of modernist poetry
Places modernist poetry in relation to its Victorian and Romantic predecessors
Encourages readers to engage with the texts and make their own interpretations, moving away from the question of what the poem says in favour of considering the effect of the poem on its reader
About the Author
Michael H. Whitworth is University Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature, and a Tutorial Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He is the author of Einstein?s Wake: Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature (2001) and Virginia Woolf (2005), and of other articles and chapters on modernist literature. He edited Modernism: A Guide to Criticism (2007), and he is an editor of the Review of English Studies.
