The Poetics of Impersonality: T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound

by Maud Ellmann

T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound dominated English poetry and criticism in the first half of the twentieth century. At the center of their practice is what Maud Ellmann calls the poetics of impersonality. Ellmann's examination yields a set of superb readings of the major poems of the modernist canon.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988

Reviews

[Beth · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting and provocative book, very well-written but not very balanced and quite oppressively and densely written.