The Birth of Modernism

The Birth of Modernism Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeat, and the Occult

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Publisher's Synopsis

In a radical revision of the conventional view that literary modernism belongs to 20th-century scientific materialism and that the mythological elements in such modernist works as The Waste Land and The Cantos are merely factitious devices, Surette documents the origins of modernist aesthetics in the occult, showing that Pound's early intimacy with

Book information

ISBN: 9780773509764
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 808
DEWEY edition: 20
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 635g
Height: 235mm
Width: 165mm
Spine width: 30mm