Reviews for New World Modernisms: T. S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, and Kamau Brathwaite ( New World Studies Series)

The average rating for New World Modernisms: T. S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, and Kamau Brathwaite ( New World Studies Series) based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-03-17 00:00:00 James Dunevent Interesting read with an intelligently articulated discussion about the relationship between modernism and post-colonial writers, focusing on Brathwaite and Walcott. Pollard's book organizes T.S. Eliot's modernism into three categories: poetry's relationship to speech, to tradition, and to the public. While Pollard makes some groundbreaking challenges to the structure of post-colonial study, the ambitious magnitude of this project only allows survey attention to each point of reference; not even including primary texts until almost sixty pages into his book, he focuses more on the review of scholarly lit at times and often reiterates key points in different chapters. It's a great introductory read, but I would encourage further study with narrower foci for a more in-depth discussion on Caribbean poetry.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-12-06 00:00:00 Steven Richard Excellent, despite the somewhat tangential focus on male writers.