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Quantum Poetics: Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and the Science of Modernism »

Authors: Daniel Albright
ISBN-13: 9780521573054, ISBN-10: 052157305X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: July 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Explores the complex intersection between science and poetry in the work of Yeats, Eliot and Pound.

	List of illustrations
	Note on references
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	Yeats's waves	31
1	Yeats's figures as reflections in water	31
2	Yeats and the avant-garde	49
3	The theme of homunculus: Yeats and Wyndham Lewis	83
4	Yeats and the sublime	102
Ch. 2	Pound's particles	111
1	Minima (elementary particles of modernist poetry)	111
2	Symbol (Yeats's precursor to Pound's image)	115
3	The decay of symbols	121
4	Things in themselves (Pound's anti-allegorism)	127
5	Image (Kandinsky, Brancusi, Tchelitchew)	134
6	Units of rhythm (Antheil)	147
7	Ideogram	160
8	Vortex	162
9	The decay of vortices	180
10	The null set (Hugh Selwyn Mauberley)	186
Ch. 3	Eliot's waves	218
1	Monadological metaphors in Eliot's early work	218
2	Narratives tied in knots	241
3	Christ-particles in Eliot's late work (relief from the waves)	282
	Bibliography	288
	Index	295