Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet,essayist,publisher,playwright,literary critic and editor. Considered one of the 20th century's major poets,he is a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry.
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic,a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement,and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912),Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920),and his 800-page epic poem,The Cantos (c. 1917–1962).
Richard Aldington,born Edward Godfree Aldington,was an English writer and poet,and an early associate of the Imagist movement. He was married to the poet Hilda Doolittle from 1911 to 1938. His 50-year writing career covered poetry,novels,criticism and biography. He edited The Egoist,a literary journal,and wrote for The Times Literary Supplement,Vogue,The Criterion and Poetry. His biography of Wellington (1946) won him the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His contacts included writers T. S. Eliot,D. H. Lawrence,Ezra Pound,W. B. Yeats,Lawrence Durrell,C. P. Snow,and others. He championed Hilda Doolittle as the major poetic voice of the Imagist movement and helped her work gain international notice.
Imagism was a movement in early-20th-century Anglo-American poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear,sharp language. It is considered to be the first organized modernist literary movement in the English language. Imagism is sometimes viewed as "a succession of creative moments" rather than a continuous or sustained period of development. The French academic RenéTaupin remarked that "it is more accurate to consider Imagism not as a doctrine,nor even as a poetic school,but as the association of a few poets who were for a certain time in agreement on a small number of important principles".
Donald Alfred Davie,FBA was an English Movement poet,and literary critic. His poems in general are philosophical and abstract,but often evoke various landscapes.
William Hugh Kenner was a Canadian literary scholar,critic and professor. He published widely on Modernist literature with particular emphasis on James Joyce,Ezra Pound,and Samuel Beckett. His major study of the period,The Pound Era,argued for Pound as the central figure of Modernism,and is considered one of the most important works on the topic.
"Gerontion" is a poem by T. S. Eliot that was first published in 1920 in Ara Vos Prec and Poems. The title is Greek for "little old man," and the poem is a dramatic monologue relating the opinions and impressions of an elderly man,which describes Europe after World War I through the eyes of a man who has lived most of his life in the 19th century. Two years after it was published,Eliot considered including the poem as a preface to The Waste Land,but was talked out of this by Ezra Pound. Along with "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and The Waste Land,and other works published by Eliot in the early part of his career,'"Gerontion" discusses themes of religion,sexuality,and other general topics of modernist poetry.
Thomas Ernest Hulme was an English critic and poet who,through his writings on art,literature and politics,had a notable influence upon modernism. He was an aesthetic philosopher and the 'father of imagism'.
Richard David Ellmann,FBA was an American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce,Oscar Wilde,and William Butler Yeats. He won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction for James Joyce (1959),which is one of the most acclaimed literary biographies of the 20th century. Its 1982 revised edition was similarly recognised with the award of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Ellmann was a liberal humanist,and his academic work focused on the major modernist writers of the twentieth century.
The Dial was an American magazine published intermittently from 1840 to 1929. In its first form,from 1840 to 1844,it served as the chief publication of the Transcendentalists. From the 1880s to 1919 it was revived as a political review and literary criticism magazine. From 1920 to 1929 it was an influential outlet for modernist literature in English.
Marjorie Perloff is an Austrian-born poetry scholar and critic in the United States.
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is the Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management at Yale School of Management,and Senior Associate Dean for Leadership Studies. Sonnenfeld is best known as the founder and CEO of Chief Executive Leadership Institute (CELI),affiliated with Yale University.
Ira Bruce Nadel is an American-Canadian biographer,literary critic and James Joyce scholar,and a distinguished professor at the University of British Columbia. He has written books on the twentieth-century Modernists,especially Ezra Pound and Joyce,biographies of Leonard Cohen and Leon Uris,and on Jewish-American authors. He has won Canadian literary awards,and has edited and written the introduction to a number of scholarly books and period pieces. He is a critic of the Olympic torch relay as a legacy of the Nazis.
Thomas Ehrlich is a consulting professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He has been married to Ellen R. Ehrlich since 1957. They have three children David,Elizabeth,and Paul,and nine grandchildren. They live in Palo Alto California.
The Fortnightly Review was one of the most prominent and influential magazines in nineteenth-century England. It was founded in 1865 by Anthony Trollope,Frederic Harrison,Edward Spencer Beesly,and six others with an investment of £9,000;the first edition appeared on 15 May 1865. George Henry Lewes,the partner of George Eliot,was its first editor,followed by John Morley.
The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot,widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922,the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's The Criterion and in the United States in the November issue of The Dial. It was published in book form in December 1922. Among its famous phrases are "April is the cruellest month","I will show you fear in a handful of dust",and the Sanskrit mantra "Shantih shantih shantih".
A classic is a book accepted as being exemplary or particularly noteworthy. What makes a book "classic" is a concern that has occurred to various authors ranging from Italo Calvino to Mark Twain and the related questions of "Why Read the Classics?" and "What Is a Classic?" have been essayed by authors from different genres and eras. The ability of a classic book to be reinterpreted,to seemingly be renewed in the interests of generations of readers succeeding its creation,is a theme that is seen in the writings of literary critics including Michael Dirda,Ezra Pound,and Sainte-Beuve. These books can be published as a collection or presented as a list,such as Harold Bloom's list of books that constitute the Western canon. Although the term is often associated with the Western canon,it can be applied to works of literature from all traditions,such as the Chinese classics or the Indian Vedas.
Olivia Shakespear was a British novelist,playwright,and patron of the arts. She wrote six books that are described as "marriage problem" novels. Her works sold poorly,sometimes only a few hundred copies. Her last novel,Uncle Hilary,is considered her magnum opus. She wrote two plays in collaboration with Florence Farr.
Cathay (1915) is a collection of classical Chinese poetry translated into English by modernist poet Ezra Pound based on Ernest Fenollosa's notes that came into Pound's possession in 1913. At first Pound used the notes to translate Noh plays and then to translate Chinese poetry to English,despite a complete lack of knowledge of the Chinese language. The volume's 15 poems are seen less as strict translations and more as new pieces in their own right;and,in his bold translations of works from a language he was unfamiliar with,Pound set the stage for modernist translations.
