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Singing the chaos

madness and wisdom in modern poetry

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An edition of Singing the chaos (1996)

Singing the chaos

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Singing the Chaos: Madness and Wisdom in Modern Poetry combines both a historical and a critical approach toward the works of major British, American, French, German, and Russian poets. Comprehensive in scope and arranged chronologically to survey a century of high poetic achievement, the study is unified by Pratt's overriding argument that "modern poets have endowed a disintegrating civilization with humane wisdom by 'singing the chaos' that surrounds them, making ours a great age in spite of itself.".

In developing this central theme, Pratt brings alive the energy, the freshness, and the originality of technique that made Baudelaire, Pound, Yeats, Rilke, Eliot, and others the initiators of the revolution in poetry.

He brings a more complete, clearer perspective to other major themes: modernism as an age of irony; poets as both madmen and geniuses; the modern poet as tragic hero; the dominance of religious or visionary truths over social or political issues; and the combination of radical experiments in poetic form with an apocalyptic view of Western civilization.

His detailed treatment of the Fugitive poets and his recognition of their prominent role in twentieth-century literature constitute an important historical revision.

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English
Pages
336

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Singing the chaos: madness and wisdom in modern poetry
1996, University of Missouri Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-328) and index.

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Columbia

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
809.1/041
Library of Congress
PS324 .P73 1996, PS324.P73 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 336 p. ;
Number of pages
336

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL969580M
Internet Archive
singingchaosmadn00prat
ISBN 10
0826210481
LCCN
96006152
OCLC/WorldCat
34244529
Library Thing
1014994
Goodreads
1148854

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