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The Modern Dilemma

Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, and Humanism

Leon Surette author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press

Published:19th Jun '08

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Puts T S Eliot and Wallace Stevens in juxtaposition and attempts to highlight the differences and similarities of their responses to the same issues or the same works. This book examines issues such as the nature and status of poetry, religious belief or disbelief, and political engagement or the lack thereof.A comparative study of T. S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens, and their struggle with the Humanist background of late nineteenth century Harvard

"The Modern Dilemma is particularly illuminating about the place of the Humanism controversies during the two wars. Timothy Materer, University of Missouri "With a confidence and lucidity that bespeak Surettes rich body of scholarship and experience in the field, The Modern Dilemma sheds valuable light on how the two poets responded to the possibility of committing to the philosophical position of Humanism in the face of loss of faith. Miranda B. Hickman, McGill University

ISBN: 9780773533639

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430 pages