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The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound (Paperback)
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The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound (Paperback)
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The politics of Yeats, Eliot and Pound have long been a source of
discomfort and difficulty for literary critics and cultural
historians. In The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot and Pound,
Michael North offers a subtle reading of these issues by linking
aesthetic modernism with an attempt in all these writers to resolve
basic contradictions in modern liberalism. The many contradictions
of modernism, which is seen as inwardly personal yet impersonal,
subjective and yet beholden to tradition, fragmented and yet whole,
mark the reappearance in art of these political contradictions.
Though Yeats, Eliot and Pound certainly attempted to resolve in art
problems that could not be resolved in actuality, their very
attempt resulted in a politicised aesthetic, one that confessed
their inability to do so. Yet this aesthetic retained an element of
critical power, precisely because it could not cover up the
political contradictions that concerned it; the poetry remains a
valid criticism of the status quo and even in its failure suggests
the beginnings of an alternative.
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