Poetry in Theory An Anthology 1900-2000 [Paperback]

• Helps readers to think critically about the nature of modern poetry, and to engage with broader questions about aesthetics, language, culture and imagination.
• Includes texts by poets, critics, theorists and philosophers, ranging from Ezra Pound to Jacques Derrida.
• Texts in translation from French, German, Spanish, Italian and Russian are presented alongside the work of writers from Britain, Ireland, the United States, Africa, India and the Caribbean.
• Each text is accompanied by a brief biographical and thematic introduction.
• A system of cross-referencing points up significant connections and disagreements between the texts.
• Includes a thematic index and chronology.

Introduction.

Part I: 1900-20.

The Symbolism of Poetry: W.B. Yeats (1900).

Three Letters: Rainer Maria Rilke (1903, 1907, 1925).

Creative Writers and Daydreaming: Sigmund Freud (1908).

Romanticism and Classicism: T. E. Hulme (1911).

The Technical Manifesto of Futurist Literature: Filippo Marinetti (1912).

Poet Yeats: Rabindrantah Tagore (1912).

Robert Frost: Edward Thomas (1914).

Poetry as Spoken Art: Amy Lowell (1917).

The New Spirit and the Poets: Guillaume Apollinaire (1917).

A Retrospect: Ezra Pound (1918).

Note on Poetry: Tristan Tzara (1919).

On Poetry and On Contemporary Poetry: Velimir Khlebnikov (1919/20).

Tradition and the Individual Talent: T. S. Eliot (1919lÆ