![]() | The Matrix of Modernism: Pound, Eliot, and Early Twentieth-Century Thought Subjects: American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Modernism (Literature); Pound Ezra 1885-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation; Eliot T. S. (Thomas Stearns) 1888-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation; English poetry -- 20th century -- History a; Sanford Schwartz situates Modernist poetics in the intellectual ferment of the early twentieth century, which witnessed major developments in philosophy, science, and the arts. Beginning with the works of various philosophers--Bergson, James, Bradley, Nietzsche, and Husserl, among others--he establishes a matrix that brings together not only the principal characteristics of Modernist/New Critical poetics but also the affiliations between the Continental and the Anglo-American critical traditions. |
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