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T.S. Eliot, T.E. Hulme, Ezra Pound

Rebecca Beasley

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Beasley, Rebecca, 1971

Theorists of modernist poetry: T.S. Eliot, T.E. Hulme, Ezra Pound/Rebecca Beasley.

p.cm. (Routledge critical thinkers)

1. American poetry 20th century History and criticism Theory,
etc. 2. Modernism (Literature) United States. 3. Eliot, T.S.
(Thomas Stearns), 18881965 Criticism and interpretation.
4. Hulme, T.E. (Thomas Ernest), 18831917 Criticism and
interpretation. 5. Pound, Ezra, 18851972 Criticism and
interpretation. 6. Poetics History 20th century. I. Title.

PS310.M57.R43 2007

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2007018157

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