Modernist Essays

by Davie, Donald

• ISBN13: 9781857546491
• ISBN10: 1857546490
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

Tracing a lifelong and at times against-the-grain engagement with some of the most challenging and rewarding works of the 20th century, this collection maps some of the most dependable critical routes in the heart of modernism--American, English, Irish, and continental. Starting with an exemplary definition of modernism in "The Poet in the Imaginary Museum" and following with essays from a five-decade period about Eliot, Yeats, and Pound and about music and fiction, a tutored eye is cast over the modernist movement.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Clive Wilmer
Editorial Note	xvi
The Poet in the Imaginary Museum (1957)	1	(12)
T.S. Eliot: The End of an Era (1956)	13	(12)
The Young Yeats (1960)	25	(9)
The Relation between Syntax and Music in Some Modern Poems in English (1961)	34	(13)
Two Analogies for Poetry (1962)	47	(6)
Ezra Pound's Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1961)	53	(13)
The `Sculpture' of Rhyme (1961)	66	(1)
Michael Ayrton's The Maze Maker (1969)	67	(12)
Mr Eliot (1963)	79	(5)
Pound and Eliot: A Distinction (1970)	84	(19)
T.S. Eliot -- 1928 (1966)	103	(2)
Yeats, The Master of a Trade (1964)	105	(8)
Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1965)	113	(14)
Cypress versus Rock-Slide: An Appreciation of Canto 110 (1970)	127	(7)
The Adventures of a Cultural Orphan (1971)	134	(4)
The Universe of Ezra Pound (1972)	138	(7)
Eliot in One Poet's Life (1972)	145	(14)
Anglican Eliot (1973)	159	(10)
The Modernist malgre lui (1984)	169	(7)
A Fascist Poem: Yeats's `Blood and the Moon' (1979)	176	(6)
Poets on Stilts: Yeats and Some Contemporaries (1982)	182	(10)
The Franglais of Criticism; the English of Translation (1983)	192	(11)
The Mysterious Allen Upward (1990)	203	(13)
`The Dry Salvages': A Reconsideration (1991)	216	(12)
A Son of Ezra (1995)	228	(14)
Ezra Pound in Pisa (1968)	242	(1)
Index	243