Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Timelines vi
4. Acknowledgements vii
5. Series Editors’ Preface x
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 Early Modernist Responses to Combatant Poetry: 1914–Spring 1915 24
8. 2 Reassessing Disaster: 1915 53
9. 3 The Three Lives of Gnosticism: 1916–Summer 1917 90
10. 4 An Emergent Critique of War Experience: Autumn 1917–Spring 1919 135
11. 5 The Form and Practice of Modernist Distaste: Summer–Autumn 1919 174
12. Conclusion 214
13. Bibliography 221
14. INDEX 255