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Modernist rebellion against the decline of the arts
Personae: The Shorter Poems of Ezra PoundPersonae: The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound
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My favourite poet. The founder of the imagist movement. Very diverse in atmosphere and setting
T.S.Eliot: "Waste Land" (Icon Reader's Guides to Essential Criticism)T.S.Eliot: "Waste Land" (Icon Reader's Guides to Essential Criticism)
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Composed with the help of his friend and mentor Ezra Pound, "The Wasteland" turned out not only to be the greatest poem Eliot has ever written but also the most canonized text in modernism
The Collected Poems of W.B.Yeats (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Poetry Library)The Collected Poems of W.B.Yeats (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Poetry Library) by W.B. Yeats
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One of the modernist patriarchs and especially remarquable in the melancholic reveries of his youth
The Book of the Virgins (Hesperus Classics)The Book of the Virgins (Hesperus Classics) by Gabriele D'Annunzio
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Painfully realistic in his discriptions, d'Annunzio manages to turn reality into poetry and seemingly everyday encounters into cataclysms of mythical proportion
HungerHunger by Knut Hamsun
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In a heroic endeavour to persue his ideals, the alieanted protagonist faces the consequences of his integrity and has to get by as a bohémien