The modern dilemma
Subtitle: Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot and humanism
By: Leon Surette.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press; Carleton Univ Pr
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Montréal [Québec]; Ithaca [N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780773533639
Subjects: Stevens, Wallace, -- 1879-1955 -- Criticism and interpretation; Eliot, T. S. -- 1888-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation; Stevens, Wallace, -- 1879-1955 -- Critique et interprétation; Eliot, T. S. -- 1888-1965 -- Critique et interprétation; Humanism in literature; Civilization, Western, in literature; Poetry, Modern -- 20th century; Humanisme dans la littérature; Civilisation occidentale dans la littérature; Poésie -- 20e siècle
Other titles: Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot and humanism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-405) and index.
Table of contents: title: A modernist poetic : Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and T.S. Eliot; title: Eliot and humanism : Charles Maurras, J.M. Robertson, and Bertrand Russell; title: Writing poetry in a time of war; title: Rethinking Western culture; title: Eliot, Stevens, and "Pale Ramon" Fernandez; title: the function of poetry : the "pure poetry" debate; title: Avoiding the abyss : Ash-Wednesday and "The man with the blue guitar".