Table of Contents

@fmct:Contents @toc4:Note on Translations, Transliteration, Sources, and Abbreviations iii Acknowledgments iii @toc2:Introduction 000 @toc2:Chapter One The Symbolist Background 000 @toc3:Who Were the Symbolists? 000 The Legacies of French Symbolism 000 Symbolism Simplified: Three Characteristics of Symbolism 000 Poetics of the Indistinct 000 Escape from the Earthly World into the Otherworld 000 The Subjective Self 000 @toc2:Chapter Two The Emergence of Tempered Modernism 000 @toc3:The Collapse of Symbolism and the Predecessors of Tempered Modernism 000 The Parallel Between Acmeism and Imagism 000 The Connection with Rilke 000 The Relation Between Tempered Modernism, Radical Modernism, and Symbolism 000 Poetics of Hardness 000 @toc2:Chapter Three The Alternative Traditions 000 @toc3:Classical Antiquity 000 The Layers of Culture: The Poet as Architect 000 French Marble 000 Translating China 000 The Parallel with Japanese Haiku 000 @toc2:Chapter Four Clarity and Precision 000 @toc3:Imagery: Indefinite Musicality Versus Defined Precision 000 Diction: Solemn Obscurity Versus Concise Simplicity 000 Fragmented Words Versus Clarity of Detail 000 Collages Versus Etchings 000 @toc2:Chapter Five The Earthly Object 000 @toc3:Manifestoes of Earthliness 000 Bringing Down the Moon 000 Seeing the World Anew 000 @toc2:Chapter Six The Suppression of the Self 000 @toc3:The Self in Radical and Tempered Modernism 000 Slices of a Society Novel: The Self Becomes a Thing 000 Thing-Poems: The Thing Becomes the Self 000 Concise Laments: The Self Absents Itself 000 A Night at the Opera: The Sardonic Commentator 000 @toc2:Chapter Seven Subdued Love Songs: Hardness and Simplicity 000 @toc3:Symbolist and Futurist Love Songs 000 Tempered Modernist Love Songs 000 @toc2:Conclusion 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000

About the Author

Kirsten Painter is Adjunct Professor in Russian and Comparative Literature at New York University.

Reviews

"Painter is an effective advocate for the poetry of the Tempered Modernists, which she clearly and rightfully admires. Her beautifully-written book exemplifies in itself the qualities of clarity, simplicity, and elegance that she sees as the hallmark of the movement she discusses... Painter needs to be congratulated for having opened up a whole new area of inquiry." - Comparative Literature Studies "[An] illuminating and engaging study that genuinely breaks new ground" - Slavic Review "...a clear and cogent scholarly work by an unusually gifted translator of poetry." - American Literature "...this book, elegantly constructed in the manner of the tempered modernism which it admires, makes an important contribution to the discipline of comparative literature and provides numerous insights into the work of individual poets." - Modern Language Review