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  title info:
    title: Singing the chaos
    sub title: madness and wisdom in modern poetry
  name:
    name part: Pratt, William
    name part: 1927-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mou
    date issued: 1996
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 337 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Singing the Chaos: Madness and Wisdom in Modern Poetry combines both a historical and a critical approach toward the works of major British, American, French, German, and Russian poets. Comprehensive in scope and arranged chronologically to survey a century of high poetic achievement, the study is unified by Pratt's overriding argument that "modern poets have endowed a disintegrating civilization with humane wisdom by 'singing the chaos' that surrounds them, making ours a great age in spite of itself." In developing this central theme, Pratt brings alive the energy, the freshness, and the originality of technique that made Baudelaire, Pound, Yeats, Rilke, Eliot, and others the initiators of the revolution in poetry. He brings a more complete, clearer perspective to other major themes: modernism as an age of irony; poets as both madmen and geniuses; the modern poet as tragic hero; the dominance of religious or visionary truths over social or political issues; and the combination of radical experiments in poetic form with an apocalyptic view of Western civilization. His detailed treatment of the Fugitive poets and his recognition of their prominent role in twentieth-century literature constitute an important historical revision.
  table of contents: The age of irony and the beginning of modernism -- French symbolism and the origin of modern poetry -- Hopkins's "Inscape" and Rilke's "Weltinnenraum" -- Two pre-imagists: Emily Dickenson and Stephen Crane -- An Irish symbolist: William Butler Yeats -- Three English ironists: Hardy, Housman, and Owen -- Three American ironists: Robinson, Frost, and Jeffers -- The original imagist: D.H. Lawrence -- Further imagists: H.D., Williams, Moore, Cummings, and MacLeish -- Two American symbolists: Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane -- A transatlantic ironist: T.S. Eliot -- The fugitives: Southern poets and the theme of alienation -- John Crowe Ransom, elusive ironist -- Donald Davidson's Tennessee and Allen Tate's Kentucky -- Robert Penn Warren: portraits of the artist as a young and an old man -- Laura Riding: fugitive, witch, or goddess? -- W.H. Auden's secondary worlds
  table of contents: A Welsh symbolist: Dylan Thomas -- Prophetic and demonic voices in Robert Lowell's poetry -- The poet as tragic hero: Pasternak's "Dr. Zhivago" and the end of modernism.
  note: William Pratt.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-328) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: American poetry
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: American poetry
    temporal: 19th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: English poetry
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Modernism (Literature)
    geographic: English-speaking countries
  classification: PS324 .P73 1996
  classification: 809.1/041
  identifier: 0826210481 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 96006152
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 960212
    record change date: 20151005051409.0
    record identifier: in00001300158