title: The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry
author:  T. S. Eliot 
description: Consisting of 11 lectures Eliot delivered at universities, this collection explores his views on the relation of thought to feeling in verse.
zlib_text: THEORISTS OF 
  MODERNIST POETRY
  ‘No one can understand the revolution that was Modernism in Anglo-America
  without some familiarity with the theoretical and critical writings of Eliot
  and Pound – and before them, T.E. Hulme . . . Rebecca Beasley’s Theorists
  of Modernist Poetry provides newcomers to this field with an excellent
  introduction to the complex strains that inform the poetic theories in question
  and argues convincingly that, however problematic the later politics of Eliot
  and Pound, the legacy of their poetics remains crucial today.’
  Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University
  This volume examines T.S. Eliot, T.E. Hulme and Ezra Pound, three of
  the most inﬂuential ﬁgures of the modernist movement, and argues that we
  cannot dissociate their bold, inventive poetic forms from their profoundly
  engaged theories of social and political reform.
  Tracing the complex theoretical foundations of modernist poetics, Rebecca
  Beasley examines:
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  the aesthetic modes and theories that formed a context