Reading modernist poetry /
Michael H. Whitworth.
- Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
- xi, 237 p. ; 24 cm.
- Reading poetry .
- Reading poetry. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part one. Subject matter: reflexivity; landscapes, locations, and texts; explorations of consciousness -- Part two. Techniques: interpreting obscurities, negotiating negatives; the sound of the poem; allusion and quotation; the language of modernist poetry: diction and dialogue; literal and metaphorical language; mythology, mythography, and mythopoesis; who is speaking? -- Part three. Form, structure, and evaluation: form; subjects and objects in modernist lyric; temporality and modernist lyric; the dramatic monologue; modernism, .epic, and the long poem; modernist endings; value and evaluation
English poetry--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--20th century American poetry--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--20th century Reader-response criticism. Poetry--Explication. Modernism (Literature)