Many gods and many voices
Subtitle: the role of the prophet in English and American modernism
By: Louis L. Martz.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: Lawrence, D. H. 1885-1930 -- Characters -- Prophets.; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Modernism (Literature) -- English-speaking countries.; Prophecies in literature.; Religion and literature -- English-speaking countries.; Prophets in literature.; Gods in literature.
Description: In Many Gods and Many Voices distinguished scholar Louis L. Martz addresses works by Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, H.D., and D.H. Lawrence, with brief treatment of the relation of Pound's Cantos to Joyce's Ulysses. Martz argues that a prophetic tradition is represented in the Cantos, The Waste Land, Paterson, and H.D.'s Trilogy and Helen in Egypt, along with Lawrence's The Plumed Serpent and the second version of Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Martz's premise is that biblical prophecy, with its mingling of poetry and prose, its abrupt shifts from violent denunciation to exalted poetry, provides a precedent for the texture of these modernist works that will help readers to appreciate the mingling of "voices" and the complex mixture of elements. Examining their interrelationships and their common themes, Many Gods and Many Voices offers fresh insights into these modern writers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-223) and index.