The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Michael North
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:252
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - poetry and poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780521414326
ClassificationsDewey:821.91209358
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 31 January 1992
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Michael North offers a subtle reading of the issues by linking aesthetic modernism with an attempt in all these writers to resolve basic contradictions in modern liberalism. Though Yeats, Eliot, and Pound certainly attempted to resolve in art problems that could not be resolved in actuality, their very attempt resulted in a politicized aesthetic, one that confessed their inability to do so. The book includes accounts of the specific political activities of the three writers, reinterpretations of their critical theories in light of their politics, and rereadings of some of their major works, including The Tower, The Waste Land, and Pisan Cantos.