Part one. Subject matter: reflexivity; landscapes, locations, and texts; explorations of consciousness
Part two. Techniques: interpreting obscurities, negotiating negatives; the sound of the poem; allusion and quotation; the language of modernist poetry: diction and dialogue; literal and metaphorical language; mythology, mythography, and mythopoesis; who is speaking?
Part three. Form, structure, and evaluation: form; subjects and objects in modernist lyric; temporality and modernist lyric; the dramatic monologue; modernism, epic, and the long poem; modernist endings; value and evaluation.
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Reading modernist poetry by Michael H. Whitworth. ISBN 9781405167314. Published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
