英美文学Twentieth Century Poetry 1.pptVIP

Twentieth Century Poetry 1 Teaching Plan T.S. Eliot ( 45’) Thomas Hardy and A. E. Housman(5’) Technical Revolution in Poetry Three influences Imagism Ezra Pound( Imagism which demands precision in imagery and freedom in rhythmic movement Metaphysical poets of th e17th c (John Donne) French Symbolist poetry Ps the rediscovery of William Blake and The publication of th etwo editions of G.M. Hopkins’ poetry also contributed to the development of 20th c poet Chief Traits of Modernist Poetry insisted on ‘direct treatment of things’ and on the avoidance of all words ‘ that di not contribute to the prensentation’ freer metrical movement introduced to poetry a much higher degree of intellectual complexity because o f the enthusiasm of Metaphysical p T. S. Eliot 1888-1965 A poet playwright and literary critic Born in the US and as an adult became a British subject, his works are considered a part of both national literature In 1915 settled down in London working as a bank clerk later an editor of a litery magazine and a reviewer for several journals In 1917 published his first book , Prufrock and Other Observations 1922 founded The Criterion an influential right-wing literary journal the Waste land appeared in the first issue In those London years he formed his mutually admiring and fruitful relationship with Ezra Pound In 1927 he became a British subject and was received into the Church of England. He declared that he was ‘Anglo- Catholic in religion, royalist in politics and classicist in literature.’ 1948 awarded the British Oder of Merit and the Nobel Prize His poetic output is not very large hit its influence on the development of 20thc poetry has been substantial. He established his style and demonstrated his departure from traditional form and metaphor in his first important poem The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock, . It in general anticipates in germinal form all of Eliot’s later linguistic and formal achievements. It is also an example