Modernism, Periodicals, and Cultural Poetics, 2015

After the publication of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, a complex series of debates occurred over the traditions of English poetry. Analyzing these diverse discussions in a wide range of well-known periodicals during the late modernist period, Chambers uncovers how poetry was shaped by avant-garde ideas, setting poetic trends for the 20th century.

Introduction 1. Standards of Criticism 2. The English in English Surrealism 3. Popular Poetry and Mass-Observation 4. The Politics of Reception Conclusion: Periodical Formations, Anthologies, and Canons

Matthew Chambers is Assistant Professor of Transatlantic and Media Studies at the University of Lodz, Poland.