A Survey of Modernist Poetry ; And, A Pamphlet Against AnthologiesMakes up the collaborative study of 'Modernist' poetry by two of the twentieth century's most important and original poets. The authors produce a contemporary reaction to the early experimentation of writers such as Eliot, Pound and E E Cummings. |
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Modernist Poetry and the Plain Readers Rights | 5 |
The Problem of Form and SubjectMatter | 17 |
The Unpopularity of Modernist Poetry with the Plain Reader | 40 |
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