Product Description: Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis developed a highly experimental art; they were attracted simultaneously to political programs remarkably backward in outlook--the autocracies of Fascist Italy and Germany. That paradox, central to the problematic achievement of Anglo-American modernism, is freshly addressed in this study...read more

Product Description: The fifteen years following World War II are an identifiable period in the history of modern British poetry and have been covered in this DLB volume through 44 biographical profiles. While few poets of the period dealt directly and intelligently with the atrocities of the War, a group of poets known as The Movement emerged in the mid-1950s with a shared determination to avoid both the ideological extremes of the recent War and the emotional excesses of romanticism...read more