Between Positivism and T.S. Eliot Imagism and T.E. Hulme

• Main Author: Olsen, Flemming (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Odense University Press of Southern Denmark 2008
• Series: Studies in Literature 52
• Subjects: Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism; positivism; imagism; Free verse; Henri Bergson; Hulme; Poetry
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Several critics have been intrigued by the gap between late Victorian poetry and the more "modern" poetry of the 1920s. It is my contention that a close analysis of the poetry and criticism written in the first decade of the 20th century and until the end of the First World War - excluding...