Modernist War Poetry: Combat Gnosticism and the Sympathetic Imagination, 1914-19

ISBN-13: 9781474497749 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

WOOD JAMIE

Spis treści

Timelines
Acknowledgments

Introduction
The problem with combat gnosticism
Modernisms and the war
Combat gnosticism as threat
Argument, structure, scope

1. Early Modernist Responses to Combatant Poetry: 1914–Spring 1915
Modernist poetics on the eve of war
Ridicule and the new patriotic verse
Theorising afterwardness
The first modernist war poetries: D.H. Lawrence, Ford Madox Ford, Wallace Stevens, W.B. Yeats
Ezra Pound’s Cathay: the poem in nature

2. Reassessing Disaster: 1915
Rupert Brooke, modernist piñata
May Sinclair’s combatant impression
Imagining trenches at St. Eloi: T.E. Hulme/Ezra Pound
Gnosis and a model of shock
Dissenting modernisms: Mina Loy, H.D.

3. The Three Lives of Gnosticism: 1916–Summer 1917
One, combat gnosticism: Henri Barbusse, C.R.W. Nevinson, Isaac Rosenberg
The gnosticism of Gertrude Stein
The ends of the Image
Two, combat agnosticism: H.D. and Edward Thomas
Modernist doubts
Three, non-combat gnosticism: Wallace Stevens and citation

4. An Emergent Critique of War Experience: Autumn 1917–Spring 1919
Transmutations into poetry
T.S. Eliot’s war, F.H. Bradley’s legacy
Tom, Maurice and the corridor into The Waste Land
John Middleton Murry’s critique of crying aloud
Redefining age and wisdom, countering The New Elizabethans

5. The Form and Practice of Modernist Distaste: Summer–Autumn 1919
America and the war in Poetry
A counter verse of the present moment
‘All Life in a Life’ and T.S. Eliot’s racial slur
A theory of non-combat gnosticism: ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’
Impersonality in practice: ‘Gerontion’

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index