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Money and modernity : Pound, Williams, and the spirit of Jefferson /

Marsh locates Pound and Williams firmly in the Jeffersonian tradition and examines their epic poems as manifestations of a Jeffersonian ideology in modernist terms. The modernist poets William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound were latter-day Jeffersonians whose politics and poetry were strongly marked...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Marsh, Alec, 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1998.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Marsh locates Pound and Williams firmly in the Jeffersonian tradition and examines their epic poems as manifestations of a Jeffersonian ideology in modernist terms. The modernist poets William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound were latter-day Jeffersonians whose politics and poetry were strongly marked by the populism of the late 19th century. They were sharply aware of the social contradictions of modernization and were committed to a highly politicized, often polemical poetry that criticized finance capitalism and its institutions--not.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 290 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780817386023
0817386025
9780817309213
0817309217