Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 A Modernist Poetic: Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and T.S. Eliot

2 Eliot and Humanism: Charles Maurras, J.M. Robertson, and Bertrand Russell

3 Writing Poetry in a Time of War

4 Rethinking Western Culture

5 Eliot, Stevens, and “Pale Ramon” Fernandez

6 The Function of Poetry: The “Pure Poetry” Debate

7 Avoiding the Abyss: Ash-Wednesday and “The Man with the Blue Guitar”

Conclusion

Notes

Works Consulted

Index