T. E. Hulme
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A landmark work of literary and intellectual biography, Michael Roberts's T. E. Hulme chronicles the life and thought of one of the most provocative and underappreciated figures in early twentieth-century modernism. Roberts presents Hulme as a fierce philosophical maverick whose ideas on classicism, original sin, and the nature of art fundamentally challenged the Romantic assumptions that dominated his era. With scholarly precision and genuine admiration, the biography details Hulme's influence on poets such as Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, arguing that his fragmentary but incisive writings helped lay the intellectual groundwork for the modernist movement. The tone is both rigorous and reverential, capturing the urgency of a thinker whose career was cut short by his death in World War I, yet whose ideas continued to reverberate through literature and philosophy for decades. This authoritative study remains an essential text for anyone seeking to understand the philosophical underpinnings of literary modernism.
Author: Michael Roberts
Format: Hardback
Published: 1982, Carcanet New Press / Manchester
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark work of literary and intellectual biography, Michael Roberts's T. E. Hulme chronicles the life and thought of one of the most provocative and underappreciated figures in early twentieth-century modernism. Roberts presents Hulme as a fierce philosophical maverick whose ideas on classicism, original sin, and the nature of art fundamentally challenged the Romantic assumptions that dominated his era. With scholarly precision and genuine admiration, the biography details Hulme's influence on poets such as Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, arguing that his fragmentary but incisive writings helped lay the intellectual groundwork for the modernist movement. The tone is both rigorous and reverential, capturing the urgency of a thinker whose career was cut short by his death in World War I, yet whose ideas continued to reverberate through literature and philosophy for decades. This authoritative study remains an essential text for anyone seeking to understand the philosophical underpinnings of literary modernism.