Modernist Quartet

A study of the four major American modernist poets (Frost, Stevens, Pound, Eliot).

Frank Lentricchia (Author)

9780521470049, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 30 September 1994

320 pages
22.5 x 14.5 x 2.8 cm, 0.517 kg

"Lentricchia's erudite and vigorous prose results in a thought-provoking examination of modernism." B. Quinn, Choice

Modernist Quartet is a study of the four major American modernist poets (Frost, Stevens, Pound, Eliot) in various historical environments (literary, philosophical, gender relations, the business of capitalist economics) with special attention given to their central poetic texts as they both reflect and shape our understanding of those environments. Frank Lentricchia presents the poems as stories, sometimes only implicit, of the poets seeking to sustain a life in non-commercial writing, in a culture that is hospitable only (for the most part) to commercial art. Central chapters give a synoptic vision of the lives and literary careers of the four poets in question.

1. Philosophers of modernism at Harvard, circa 1900
2. Lyric in the culture of capital
3. Robert Frost
4. Wallace Stevens
5. Ezra Pound
6. T. S. Eliot
Epilogue
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC]