MODERNIST ESSAYS: YEATS, POUND, ELIOT; ED. BY CLIVE WILMER

"Donald Davie mapped some of the most dependable critical routes into the heart of Modernism. Clive Wilmer has gathered Davie's most important essays on the subject, beginning with his exemplary definition of Modernism in 'The Poet in the Imaginary Museum' (1957). The subsequent essays, written over five decades, reveal his evolving engagement with some of the most challenging and rewarding poetry of the twentieth century. Yeats, Pound and, above all, Eliot are the figures at the centre of his response to Modernism. The eight essays on Eliot included here provide some of the most illuminating criticism on the poet available, and some of the most practically useful to readers. Davie explores Modernism with intelligence and feeling, and always with a concern to show how the words on the page work upon us as we read."--BOOK JACKET.