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Modernist Figures

Volume 2: Ezra Pound and After

Av Peter Nicholls

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Modernist Figures brings together three decades of Peter Nicholls’s scholarship on poetry and poetics, tracing how modernism redefined literary form, skepticism, and cultural authority. The collection ranges across American, British, and European traditions, this second volume beginning with a substantial group of chapters that examines the positive and negative features of Pound’s legacy—from his fascination with Japanese Noh and the Ruskinian grotesque, through his ideological entanglements with fascism, to the late Cantos’ fragmentary brilliance. Closing essays extend modernist concerns into postmodern and contemporary writing, including Toni Morrison, Lyn Hejinian, and Susan Howe, showing how these writers also fundamentally contested and revised Pound’s ideological notions of time and historicity.
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Peter Nicholls is an amazing critic who has exceeded his very high standards in this two-volume collection. His prose is elegantly spare and his critical claims have a scope and depth that I think even exceeds the scope and depth of Hugh Kenner, the only Modernist critic I know good enough to compare to Nicholls. Nicholls can close read with the best of us. But the best of us cannot match the scope and depth of his situating those readings. The first chapter makes a surprising case for Melville as in effect the first modernist for turning to the essay rather than the tract in fiction so that he could have room for a continual skeptical turning over ideas to explore them rather than identify with or against them. Then the second essay on Swinburne, of all topics, may be the best essay I have read from a critic. The essay makes a completely convincing description of two versions of the modern--one historically bound to express its society by turning to distrust of any positive language anchored in ideals, and the second alternative which we know as the Modernism inspired by Pound and Eliot that returns to semantic precision in the service of a greater psychologicual complexity interpreting such skepticism and often justifying it. — Charles Altieri, University of California at Berkeley

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