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The problem of consciousness in modern poetry /

(Number (ISBN

0521066514

(Number (ISBN

0521410339

(Number (ISBN

9780521066518

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9780521410335

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b782475

Title Proper

The problem of consciousness in modern poetry /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Hugh Underhill.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1992.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xi, 341 pages ;

Dimensions

22 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-331) and index.

Text of Note

Introduction: the inward revolution -- 1. From Georgian origins to 'Romantic primitivism': D.H. Lawrence and Robert Graves -- 2. Strangers to nature: modern nature poetry and the rural myth -- 3. The 'poetical character' of Edward Thomas -- 4. 'Myself must I remake': W.B. Yeats -- 5. 'Here and now cease to matter': T.S. Eliot -- 6. The work of Man: Louis MacNeice and W.H. Auden -- 7. 'Nothing of our light': Ted Hughes.

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Text of Note

Modernist aesthetics have been identified with a sense of cultural crisis, defined by its distance from an ideal of unified, 'undissociated' consciousness attributed to primitive man. This original study of the problem of consciousness in modern poetry examines the struggle towards that ideal of 'unitary' subjective experience, through close readings of British and Irish poets from Hardy and the Georgian poets, through D.H. Lawrence, Edward Thomas, Yeats, Eliot, MacNeice and Auden, to Ted Hughes. Hugh Underhill argues that the poetry's emphasis on inner states and 'the experience itself' underrepresents the extent to which the crisis is socio-historically determined. Acknowledging the Romantic inheritance of a myth of 'poetry', Underhill embraces both modern poetry's resistance to positivist reductions of the mystery of consciousness, and the clarification of poetry's socio-cultural role (co-ordinating 'inner' and 'outer' worlds) provided by contemporary theories of subjectivity and the text. The problematic status of any notion of the unitary in the twentieth century is shown to give space at least for experiencing indeterminacy as a field of creative choice and freedom.

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£40.00 : CIP entry (Sept.)

Englisch, ...

Bewusstsein

Consciousness in literature.

English poetry-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

Modernism (Literature)-- Great Britain.

Bewusstsein

Bewustzijn.

Consciousness in literature.

Consciousness in literature.

Engels.

English poetry-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

English poetry.

Gedichten.

Geschichte (1880-1990)

Geschichte (1900-1990)

Lyrik

Modernism (Literature)

Modernism (Literature)-- Great Britain.

Modernisme (cultuur)

Versdichtung

Englisch.

Great Britain.

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Edition

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Book number

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Underhill, Hugh.

Date of Transaction

20201206210021.0

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