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  title info:
    title: E.E. Cummings' modernism and the classics
    sub title: each imperishable stanza
  name:
    name part: Rosenblitt, J. Alison (Jennifer Alison)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2016
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxii, 370 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: This volume is a major, ground-breaking study of the modernist E.E. Cummings' engagement with the classics. With his experimental form and syntax, his irreverence, and his rejection of the highbrow, there are probably few current readers who would name Cummings if asked to identify 20th-century Anglophone poets in the Classical tradition. But for most of his life, and even for ten or twenty years after his death, this is how many readers and critics did see Cummings. He specialised in the study of classical literature as an undergraduate at Harvard, and his contemporaries saw him as a 'pagan' poet or a 'Juvenalian' satirist, with an Aristophanic sense of humour. In E.E. Cummings' Modernism and the Classics, Alison Rosenblitt aims to recover for the contemporary reader this lost understanding of Cummings as a classicizing poet.
  table of contents: E.E. Cummings as a classical poet -- 1. Preface -- 2. Cummings and the classics -- 3. 'smoking centuries of hecatombs': Cummings and translation -- Childhood, Harvard, and Paganism -- 4. The Pagan world of goat-footed Pan -- Classics and childhood: Protectors and transgressors -- The Great War and beyond -- 6. 'a twilight smelling of Vergil': Cummings, classics, and the Great War -- 7. 'let not thy lust one threaded moment lose': Death in the Meadow -- 8. 'cast like Euridyce one brief look behind': The Post-War World -- Cummings, classics, and Modernism -- 9. Modernity and antiquity: 'smite the sounding bollox' -- A Homeric affair: Reflections on the ambitions of Modernism.
  note: J. Alison Rosenblitt.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-357) and indexes.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin)
      name part: 1894-1962
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin)
      name part: 1894-1962
    topic: Themes, motives
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin)
      name part: 1894-1962
    topic: Critique et interprétation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin)
      name part: 1894-1962
    topic: Thèmes, motifs
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin)
      name part: 1894-1962
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: American
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Themes, motives
  classification: PS3505.U334 Z835 2016eb
  classification: 811/.52
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    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (OCoLC)935690582
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  record info:
    record content source: GRU
    record creation date: 161121
    record change date: 20260319162726.5
    record identifier: in00005713714
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng