John Davidson, First of the Moderns: A Literary Biography

by Sloan, John
ISBN: 9780198182481
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Back in 1917, Virginia Woolf expressed surprise that anyone as good as John Davidson should "be so little famous." This book, the first biography of Davidson (1857-1909) in more than thirty years, shows the poet to be a key figure in the emergence of literary modernism and a major influence on the younger poets of his day, particularly T.S. Eliot. Sloan presents a wealth of new information about Davidson's life, including his struggles in London as a penniless author. The picture that emerges is not simply that of a late Victorian rebel, but of a proto-Modernist who pioneered a new idiom and subject matter for twentieth-century verse.
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Sloan, John
  • ISBN: 9780198182481
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.81 x 0.98
  • Number Of Pages: 336
  • Publication Year: 1995
Language: English