Title: Many gods and many voices
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Characters, History and criticism, Religion and literature, Gods in literature, Prophets, Modernism (Literature), Prophecies in literature, American poetry, Prophets in literature, Lawrence, d. h. (david herbert), 1885-1930, American poetry, history and criticism, 20th century
Places: English-speaking countries
People: D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS310.M57 M37 1998