The Embankment
T. E. Hulme (1883-1917) was an English essayist and poet whose critical and creative output had a powerful influence on the Modernist poets who helped define 20th-century poetry, including Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and Robert Frost. So great was his influence that he is often considered the first Modernist poet. His ideas about art and literature emerged from his intense interest in the works of French philosopher Henri Bergson, who emphasized immediate sensory experience over rational abstraction for understanding reality and saw in religious belief a greater claim to reality than human experience alone. Hulme’s literary career — a tragic case of what could have been — was cut short when he was killed in action during World War I.
The Embankment
T. E. Hulme (1883-1917) was an English essayist and poet whose critical and creative output had a powerful influence on the Modernist poets who helped define 20th-century poetry, including Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and Robert Frost. So great was his influence that he is often considered the first Modernist poet. His ideas about art and literature emerged from his intense interest in the works of French philosopher Henri Bergson, who emphasized immediate sensory experience over rational abstraction for understanding reality and saw in religious belief a greater claim to reality than human experience alone. Hulme’s literary career — a tragic case of what could have been — was cut short when he was killed in action during World War I.
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