The Dance of the Intellect: Studies in the Poetry of the Pound Tradition (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)

Perloff, Marjorie

ISBN 10: 0810113805 / ISBN 13: 9780810113800

Published by Northwestern University Press, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Dance of the Intellect: Studies in the Poetry of the Pound Tradition (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810113805
• ISBN 13: 9780810113800
• Binding: Paperback

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Synopsis

Must poetic form be, as Yeats demanded, "full, sphere-like, single," or can it accommodate the impurities Yeats and his Modernist generation found so problematic? Sixty years later, these are still open questions, questions Marjorie Perloff addresses in these essays.

About the Author

MARJORIE PERLOFF is the Sadie Dernham Patek professor of Humanities at Stanford University. She is the author of many books of literary criticism, including Poetic License: Essays on Modernist and Postmodernist Lyric and The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage, both published by Northwestern University Press.