TY - BOOK AU - Ellmann,Maud TI - The Poetics of Impersonality: T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound SN - 9780748691296 AV - PS3509.L43 U1 - 821.912 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - American poetry KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Identity (Psychology) in literature KW - Persona (Literature) KW - Personality in literature KW - Poetry KW - Psychological aspects KW - Self in literature KW - Literary Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Principal Short Forms of Citation --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: Ego Scriptor --; PART 1: T. S. ELIOT --; Chapter 1: The Loop in Time --; Chapter II: The Spider and the Weevil: Self and Writing in Eliot's Early Poetry --; Chapter III: The Waste Land: A Sphinx without a Secret --; Chapter IV: The Figure in the Four Quartets --; PART II: EZRA POUND --; Chapter V: "What part ob yu is deh poEM?" --; Chapter VI: The Erasure of History --; Coda --; Index; restricted access N2 - GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748691296','ISBN:9780748691302']);In this classic work, Maud Ellmann examines T. S. Eliot’s and Ezra Pound’s criticism in terms of what she calls the ‘poetics of impersonality’. She convincingly shows that Eliot’s and Pound’s attempts to overcome personality merely reinstated it in a new guise. And her superb and entirely original readings of the major poems of the modernist canon have earned a lasting place in criticism.Following an analysis of Eliot’s relation to Bergson, Ellmann goes on to analyse Eliot’s ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’ and the later After Strange Gods, the early poems, The Waste Land, and Four Quartets. She then turns to Pound’s Personae, particularly ‘Mauberley’, and the Cantos. Ellmann looks for the contradictions inherent in modernist literary ideology and deftly teases out their implications. Stylish and perceptive, this book marked the debut of a major literary critic, and it has as much resonance today as it did on first publication." UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474468053 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474468053 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474468053/original ER -