Revisiting Henry James: High Modernists and Objectivists
Keywords:
Henry James, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, George OppenAbstract
This article addresses the manner in which two generations of American modernists read and responded to Henry James. It identifies readings by the first-generation modernist poets Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and William Carlos Williams and the second-generation modernist poets Louis Zukofsky and George Oppen as significant and then goes on to suggest that the approach towards James of the second-generation modernists also implies a complex and revealing relation to their modernist forebears.
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