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1028105
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b782475
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| Main Entry
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Underhill, Hugh.
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| Title & Author
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The problem of consciousness in modern poetry /\ Hugh Underhill.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge [England] ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 1992.
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xi, 341 pages ;; 22 cm
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0521066514
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: 0521410339
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: 9780521066518
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: 9780521410335
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-331) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: the inward revolution -- 1. From Georgian origins to 'Romantic primitivism': D.H. Lawrence and Robert Graves -- 2. Strangers to nature: modern nature poetry and the rural myth -- 3. The 'poetical character' of Edward Thomas -- 4. 'Myself must I remake': W.B. Yeats -- 5. 'Here and now cease to matter': T.S. Eliot -- 6. The work of Man: Louis MacNeice and W.H. Auden -- 7. 'Nothing of our light': Ted Hughes.
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Modernist aesthetics have been identified with a sense of cultural crisis, defined by its distance from an ideal of unified, 'undissociated' consciousness attributed to primitive man. This original study of the problem of consciousness in modern poetry examines the struggle towards that ideal of 'unitary' subjective experience, through close readings of British and Irish poets from Hardy and the Georgian poets, through D.H. Lawrence, Edward Thomas, Yeats, Eliot, MacNeice and Auden, to Ted Hughes. Hugh Underhill argues that the poetry's emphasis on inner states and 'the experience itself' underrepresents the extent to which the crisis is socio-historically determined. Acknowledging the Romantic inheritance of a myth of 'poetry', Underhill embraces both modern poetry's resistance to positivist reductions of the mystery of consciousness, and the clarification of poetry's socio-cultural role (co-ordinating 'inner' and 'outer' worlds) provided by contemporary theories of subjectivity and the text. The problematic status of any notion of the unitary in the twentieth century is shown to give space at least for experiencing indeterminacy as a field of creative choice and freedom.
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Englisch, ...
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Consciousness in literature.
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English poetry-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Modernism (Literature)-- Great Britain.
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Bewusstsein
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Consciousness in literature.
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Consciousness in literature.
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English poetry-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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English poetry.
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Lyrik
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Modernism (Literature)
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Modernism (Literature)-- Great Britain.
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Versdichtung
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Geschichte (1880-1990)
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Geschichte (1900-1990)
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Bewustzijn.
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Engels.
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Gedichten.
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Modernisme (cultuur)
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Bewusstsein
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Englisch.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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821/.91091
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| LC Classification
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PR605.M63U53 1992
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| NLM classification
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18.05bcl
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HM 1191rvk
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HN 1191rvk
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