At home in time : forms of neo-Augustanism in modern English poetry
A study arguing that modern English poetry is indebted to the classical tradition and to the attitudes and modes of the 18th century. It illustrates how neo-Augustan values are apparent in the works of T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, A.D. Hope, Donald Davie, Charles Tomlinson, and others.
Print Book, English, ©1994
McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, ©1994
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 256 pages ; 24 cm
9780773512153, 0773512152
30668746
Introduction: Forms of Neoclassicism: Modern Continuities and Discontinuities
1. Eliot's Classicism, Pound's Symbolism, and the Drafts of The Waste Land
2. The Reader in W.H. Auden's "New Year Letter"
3. Louis MacNeice and the Lesson of Autumn Journal
4. A.D. Hope: A Poetics and Poetry of "Counter-Revolution"
5. Donald Davie's Quarrel with Modernism in Six Epistles to Eva Hesse
Conclusion: World Enough, and Time: Recent Negotiations between Poetry and History