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

Maud Ellmann

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2013

The Poetics of Impersonality

T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound

Maud Ellmann

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474468053

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In this classic work, Maud Ellmann examines T. S. Eliot’s and Ezra Pound’s criticism in terms of what she calls the ‘poetics of impersonality’. She convincingly shows that Eliot’s and Pound’s attempts to overcome personality merely reinstated it in a new guise. And her superb and entirely original readings of the major poems of the modernist canon have earned a lasting place in criticism.

Following an analysis of Eliot’s relation to Bergson, Ellmann goes on to analyse Eliot’s ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’ and the later After Strange Gods, the early poems, The Waste Land, and Four Quartets. She then turns to Pound’s Personae, particularly ‘Mauberley’, and the Cantos. Ellmann looks for the contradictions inherent in modernist literary ideology and deftly teases out their implications. Stylish and perceptive, this book marked the debut of a major literary critic, and it has as much resonance today as it did on first publication.

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Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xvi
Introduction: Ego Scriptor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART 1: T. S. ELIOT
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Chapter II: The Spider and the Weevil: Self and Writing in Eliot's Early Poetry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
Chapter III: The Waste Land: A Sphinx without a Secret Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
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PART II: EZRA POUND
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
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- Main content: 224
Keywords: Literary Studies

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