Yeats, Eliot, Pound and the Politics of Poetry

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Concentrating on the writings of W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound in the period up to the 1930s, this study, first published in 1982, provides a much needed reappraisal of the factors influencing their poetic and political development. Yeats, Eliot, Pound and the Politics of Poetry will be of interest to students of literature.

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Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Introduction: Poetry and Politics 2. The Associationist Tradition 3. Openings 4. Yeats: The Art of Memory 5. Eliot, Pound and the Memory of Art 6. Closures 7. Yeats: The Loss and Recovery of Memory 8. Eliot, Pound: Memory s Broken Bridge 9. The Politics of Poetry; Abbreviations and Editions of Texts Cited; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index