Yeats and the Occult
Modernism produces obscure poetry because it denies the existence of absolute truth. Without a fundamental truth to reveal, poetry is...
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By Adam Sedia
- Aug 12, 2022
- 23 min
Clarity and Obscurity:The Essences of Classicism and Modernism Compared
Classical and modern poetry are inarguably different. Indeed, modernism’s chief boast is its break with classicism and tradition more...
By Adam Sedia
- Sep 15, 2020
- 41 min
Clarity and Obscurity: Eliot's Masks
T.S. Eliot means many things to many different people. Like Yeats he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. In the academy he numbers among...
By Adam Sedia
- Mar 17, 2019
- 20 min
Clarity and Obscurity: The Essences of Classicism and Modernism Compared Part II -''Concreteness''
In my last essay, I discussed the difference between classical and modernist poetry as a difference of worldviews. Classicism views the...
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