By thoroughly examining T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound collected and
uncollected writings, James Longenbach presents their understandings of
the philosophical idea of history and analyzes the strategies of
historical interpretation they discussed in their critical prose and
embodied in their poems including history."
Originally published in 1987.
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