Modernist War Poetry - Jamie Woodcock

This study examines the work of the principle architects of Anglo-American modernist poetics – T.S. Eliot, H.D., Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Edward Thomas and Wallace Stevens – and their response to the challenge of combatant war poetries. It argues that these civilian poets sought to negotiate directly with the combatantÂ’s gnosticism, specifically with the combatantÂ’s assertion that only those present at a catastrophe could properly represent its horrors. The modernists rightly identified that... Zobrazit více