Ritual and Experiment in Modern Poetry
W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, H.D. and David Jones, major poets of the early twentieth century, were fully involved in the historic conflict between religion and science. Jacob Korg's study illuminates the manner in which they attempted to overcome the division between the two cultures - by incorporating elements of religious ritual as well as scientific experiment in their poems. Known primarily as innovators who devised new methods of artistic expression, these poets also employed ritual, a form even more ancient than myth, side by side with their experimental ventures. Through close study of their major poems, Korg shows that the interplay between these apparently contradictory principles was a persistent theme of modern poetry that played an important part in the poetic revolution of the time.
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Ritual and Experiment in Modern Poetry
W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, H.D. and David Jones, major poets of the early twentieth century, were fully involved in the historic conflict between religion and science. Jacob Korg's study illuminates the manner in which they attempted to overcome the division between the two cultures - by incorporating elements of religious ritual as well as scientific experiment in their poems. Known primarily as innovators who devised new methods of artistic expression, these poets also employed ritual, a form even more ancient than myth, side by side with their experimental ventures. Through close study of their major poems, Korg shows that the interplay between these apparently contradictory principles was a persistent theme of modern poetry that played an important part in the poetic revolution of the time.
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Ritual and Experiment in Modern Poetry

Ritual and Experiment in Modern Poetry

by Jacob Korg
Ritual and Experiment in Modern Poetry

Ritual and Experiment in Modern Poetry

by Jacob Korg

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W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, H.D. and David Jones, major poets of the early twentieth century, were fully involved in the historic conflict between religion and science. Jacob Korg's study illuminates the manner in which they attempted to overcome the division between the two cultures - by incorporating elements of religious ritual as well as scientific experiment in their poems. Known primarily as innovators who devised new methods of artistic expression, these poets also employed ritual, a form even more ancient than myth, side by side with their experimental ventures. Through close study of their major poems, Korg shows that the interplay between these apparently contradictory principles was a persistent theme of modern poetry that played an important part in the poetic revolution of the time.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780312124533
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 08/30/1995
Edition description: 1995
Pages: 244
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments - Ritual, Experiment, Poetry - The Language of Ritual and Experiment - William Butler Yeats - T.S. Eliot's Early Poems - Four Quartets - Ezra Pound's Early Poems - The Cantos - H.D. - David Jones - Conclusion
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