Overview
Tracing a lifelong and at times against-the-grain engagement with some of the most challenging and rewarding works of the 20th century, this collection maps some of the most dependable critical routes in the heart of modernism—American, English, Irish, and continental. Starting with an exemplary definition of modernism in “The Poet in the Imaginary Museum” and following with essays from a five-decade period about Eliot, Yeats, and Pound and about music, poetry, and fiction, a tutored eye is cast over the modernist movement.Author Biography
Donald Davie is the author of With the Grain: Essays on Thomas Hardy and British Poetry, Two Ways Out of Whitman: American Essays, and A Travelling Man: Eighteenth-Century Bearings. He has served as a professor of English at the University of Essex, Stanford University, and Vanderbilt University.
