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Un estudio comparativo entre dos grandes de la literatura: Wallace Stevens y T. S. Eliot en su lucha de trasfondo humanista de la Harvard de finales del siglo XIX. Esta obra de Leon Surette pone en tela de juicio la opinión generalizada de que la poesía de Stevens expresa una visión humanista del mundo y, lo que es más sorprendente, documenta la primera fase humanista de Eliot. Mientras que la poesía de Eliot está dominada por la ansiedad cult...

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Frank Kermode famously commented that the "correlation between early modernist literature and authoritarian politics" was "more often noticed than explained." Dreams of a Totalitarian Utopia examines in detail the political writings of three of modernism's best known and most criticized fascist sympathisers: T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Wyndam Lewis.

Pound in Purgatory, available now in paperback, overturns all previous explanations of Ezra Pound's anti-Semitism by uncovering its roots in economic and conspiracy theory. Leon Surette demonstrates that, contrary to popular opinion, Pound was not a lifelong anti-Semitie and consistently ignored or resisted anti-Semitic comments from his correspondents until after 1931. From 1931 to 1945 Pound's poetry took a back seat to his activities as an ...

In The Birth of Modernism Leon Surette challenges our traditional understanding of modernism by situating the origins of modernist aesthetics in the occult.

Leon Surette is professor emeritus, English, the University of Western Ontario, and the author of The Birth of Modernism, Pound in Purgatory, and A Light From Eleusis.