In this revolutionary critical study, M.L. Rosenthal and Sally M. Gall explore 125 years of poetic history in order to establish the poetic sequence as the major genre of twentieth-century poetry. They analyze some of the most important poems of our time--the Cantos of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot's Waste Land , Yeats' Irish Civil War sequences, and William Carlos Williams' Paterson --as well as insights into the way not only the sequence but the whole of twentieth-century poetry has developed.
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In this revolutionary critical study, M.L. Rosenthal and Sally M. Gall explore 125 years of poetic history in order to establish the poetic sequence as the major genre of twentieth-century poetry. They analyze some of the most important poems of our time--the Cantos of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot's Waste Land , Yeats' Irish Civil War sequences, and William Carlos Williams' Paterson --as well as insights into the way not only the sequence but the whole of twentieth-century poetry has developed.
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