Six modernist moments in poetry

by Young, David

"This study of six modernist poems by six different poets demonstrates the multiple facets of modernism. By showing not only what the poets and poems have in common but also by exploring their remarkable diversity, David Young reveals that the modernist narrative is really many narratives at once." "Young believes that modernist poetic practice can best be demonstrated through close attention to particular poems. In this composite portrait of high modernist poetry, each of the book's six chapters reads one key modernist poem in the light of emergent modernism. The six poets discussed here - four writing in English, one in German, and one in Italian - emerge as distinctive practitioners of a common aesthetic, one that challenged received ideas and patterns of thinking from a variety of perspectives. "Making it new" was very much what modernism was all about, and these six examples demonstrate that fully." "Along with the four poems written in English, the two non-English poems are prese