Tag: T. E. Hulme

Literature

A Short Analysis of T. E. Hulme’s ‘Romanticism and Classicism’

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Romanticism and Classicism’ by T. E. Hulme (1883-1917) was posthumously published as part of the 1924 collection Speculations but probably written in 1911-12. It’s an important attack on romanticism in art and poetry, and was an influential defence of the ‘philosophy’ (though that may […]

Literature

A Short Analysis of T. E. Hulme’s ‘A Lecture on Modern Poetry’

A summary of a key modernist essay There are numerous documents which might be described as ‘manifestos’ for modernist poetry in English – Ezra Pound’s ‘A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste’ springs to mind – but T. E. Hulme’s ‘A Lecture on Modern Poetry’ was almost certainly the earliest. It’s […]