Description:
Poetry and the Question of Modernity provides the first extended account of the relationship between Heidegger's thought and modern poetry: it is not simply another study of Heidegger's views on poetry, rather it seeks to establish how his thought frames the defining questions of the lyric from the 1950s onwards.
Review Quotes:
"Cooper's argumentation overlaps and doubles back in a complex, almost vertiginous manner and contains much more than can be touched on here...anyone interested in the ramifications...for reading poems in a philosophical and theological context will want to study and quarrel with Ian Cooper's rich, dense, forceful book."
Charlie Louth, The Times Literary Supplement
'A landmark achievement [...] Ian Cooper [...], with Poetry and the Question of Modernity, has established himself as one of the most inspiring scholars on poetology as a crucial constituent of modernism'. Rüdiger Görner, Queen Mary University of London, Modern Language Review