Modernist Poetics of History: Pound, Eliot, and the Sense of the Past

By thoroughly examining T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound collected and uncollected writings, James Longenbach presents their understandings of the philosophical idea of history and analyzes the strategies of historical interpretation they discussed in their critical prose and embodied in their poems including history."

Originally published in 1987.

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Author: James Longenbach
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 07/14/2014
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780691609720