Great War Modeists:D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Richard Aldington (Historicizing Modeism)

by: Lee M. Jenkins (Author),Matthew Feldman(Series Editor),Erik Tonning(Series Editor)

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Publication Date: 2024/8/8

Language: English

Print Length: 200 pages

ISBN-10: 1350285331

ISBN-13: 9781350285330

Book Description

Taking 44 Mecklenburgh Square as the focal point and springboard for a critical group study of D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Richard Aldington, this book offers a fresh perspective on the relationship of modeist biofiction and poetry to the literature of the First World War. A group that Perdita Schaffner described as ‘another Bloomsbury set’, the Mecklenburgh Square writers, like the Bloomsbury Group proper, ‘lived in squares’ and ‘loved in triangles’, in Dorothy Parker’s famous formulation. Geographically adjacent, these sets intersected socially and, at points, in their aesthetics:both practiced innovative forms of what may broadly be defined as ‘life writing’. But, demarcating the Mecklenburgh Square writers from the Bloomsbury Set, the former had its origins in the transatlantic avant-garde:Lawrence. H.D., Aldington (and John Couos) were all associated with Imagism, the poetic movement which instantiated Anglo-American modeism. Considered as a pro-tem collective, these four poets, all of whom were also novelists and translators, contest the binaries that still obtain between modeist and First World War writing. This group study of Lawrence, H.D., Aldington and Couos tracks the transition of Imagism from a pre-war mode to a war poetics which includes but is not confined to the trench lyric and it traces, in the transtextual relations between the Mecklenburgh Square novels, the traumatic imprint of the war on modeist life writing.

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Taking 44 Mecklenburgh Square as the focal point and springboard for a critical group study of D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Richard Aldington, this book offers a fresh perspective on the relationship of modeist biofiction and poetry to the literature of the First World War. A group that Perdita Schaffner described as ‘another Bloomsbury set’, the Mecklenburgh Square writers, like the Bloomsbury Group proper, ‘lived in squares’ and ‘loved in triangles’, in Dorothy Parker’s famous formulation. Geographically adjacent, these sets intersected socially and, at points, in their aesthetics:both practiced innovative forms of what may broadly be defined as ‘life writing’. But, demarcating the Mecklenburgh Square writers from the Bloomsbury Set, the former had its origins in the transatlantic avant-garde:Lawrence. H.D., Aldington (and John Couos) were all associated with Imagism, the poetic movement which instantiated Anglo-American modeism. Considered as a pro-tem collective, these four poets, all of whom were also novelists and translators, contest the binaries that still obtain between modeist and First World War writing. This group study of Lawrence, H.D., Aldington and Couos tracks the transition of Imagism from a pre-war mode to a war poetics which includes but is not confined to the trench lyric and it traces, in the transtextual relations between the Mecklenburgh Square novels, the traumatic imprint of the war on modeist life writing.

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