Poetry, Politics, and Culture

Name: Poetry, Politics, and Culture
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Poetry, Politics, and CultureArgument in the Work of Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams\nAuthor(s): Harold Kaplan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138529977, 978-1138529977\nSynopsis\nA 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.\n\nAll four poets wrote in an atmosphere of cultural crisis following World War I, caught as they were between outmoded belief systems and vario.