The Birth of Modernism

Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, and the Occult

von Leon Surette

332 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

While W.B. Yeats' occultism has long been acknowledged, Surette is the first to show that Ezra Pound's early intimacy with Yeats was based largely on a shared interest in the occult, and that Pound's The Cantos is a deeply occult work. Surette argues that Pound's editing of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land was not motivated primarily by stylistic concerns, as has generally been contended by the New Critics, but by thematic considerations. In fact, it was precisely because Eliot knew Pound to be well informed about the occult that he asked for Pound's assistance with The Waste Land.

• ISBN: 9780773512436
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.05.1994
• Größe: 228 x 153 mm
• Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press