On Technique and Judgement in Modernist Poetics

2025/12/05 by Sean Pryor · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #Poetry Analysis and Criticism #Modernist Literature and Criticism #Samuel Beckett and Modernism

paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/criq.70030

Abstract

Writing for the London Vogue in 1925, Edith Sitwell weighs up the relative merits of Aurora Leigh (1856) and 'Goblin Market' (1862):When we ask ourselves why Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market' is one of the best poems ever written by a woman, and why

Discussions

• Turns out, the idea of "poetic technique" was once strange and new. Here's a new article on what "technique" meant for poets and critics in the time of modernism, and in particular about how it shaped [bsky, 7 points, 0 comments]

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