Poetry, politics & culture : argument in the work of Eliot, Pound, Stevens & Williams

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Poetry, politics & culture : argument in the work of Eliot, Pound, Stevens & Williams

Harold Kaplan

Routledge, 2017

  • : pbk

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Poetry, politics and culture

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"First published 2006 by Transaction Publishers"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

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A salient feature of modern poetics is its direct connection with cultural history and politics. Among the great American poets of the twentieth century, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams offer a significant contrast with T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Where the latter advocated a theocentric or reactionary response to the cultural crises of modernity, the former affirmed an essentially humanist and democratic social and aesthetic ethos. In Poetry, Politics, and Culture, Harold Kaplan offers a penetrating comparative study of these representative and distinctively influential poets. All four poets wrote in an atmosphere of cultural crisis following World War I, caught as they were between outmoded belief systems and various forms of artistic and political nihilism. While each believed in poetry as a source of cultural values and beliefs, they nevertheless experienced loss of confidence in their own vocation in a world characterized by scientific, rationalist thinking and the mundane struggle for survival. For each, therefore, the poetic imagination was a means of restoring order, or building a new civilization out of chaos. In trying to define a revitalized culture, the four exemplified the perennial quarrel between Europe and America.

目次

  • 1: Introduction and Argument
  • 1: Eliot and Pound: Dissociations of Sensibility and Power
  • 2: Dissociations, Natural and Supernatural
  • 3: "The Silhouette of Man"
  • 4: Purgatory and Apocalypse
  • 5: A Problem of Order
  • 6: The Old Sublime
  • 7: The Vortex of Art
  • 8: Esthetic Politics
  • 9: Prejudice and Abstraction
  • 2: Stevens and Williams: The Source of Poetry
  • 10: "A Confidence in the World"
  • 11: "A Malady of the Quotidian"
  • 12: The Necessary Angel of Reality
  • 13: The Imagination as Value
  • 14: The Dehumanization of Art
  • 15: "The City as a Man"
  • 16: "A Peculiar Majesty"
  • 17: The Sign and Presence of the Human
  • 3: Poetry and Politics
  • 18: Cultural and Humanist Poetics
  • 19: Poetry, Culture, and Politics

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