CHARLES I. ARMSTRONG is Professor of British Literature at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has previously published Romantic Organicism: From Idealist Origins to Ambivalent Afterlife.

• Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: The Returns of the Past Multiplicity and Mourning: Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, Tennyson Weird Wests: Victorian and Post-Victorian Displacements of Nostalgia Modernism, Tradition, and Organicism in T. S. Eliot and Heaney Other Times: Contemporary Poetry's Breaks with the Past Conclusion: Imperfect Hindsight Notes Bibliography Index

CHARLES I. ARMSTRONG is Professor of British Literature at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has previously published Romantic Organicism: From Idealist Origins to Ambivalent Afterlife.

• Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: The Returns of the Past Multiplicity and Mourning: Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, Tennyson Weird Wests: Victorian and Post-Victorian Displacements of Nostalgia Modernism, Tradition, and Organicism in T. S. Eliot and Heaney Other Times: Contemporary Poetry's Breaks with the Past Conclusion: Imperfect Hindsight Notes Bibliography Index

CHARLES I. ARMSTRONG is Professor of British Literature at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has previously published Romantic Organicism: From Idealist Origins to Ambivalent Afterlife.

• Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: The Returns of the Past Multiplicity and Mourning: Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, Tennyson Weird Wests: Victorian and Post-Victorian Displacements of Nostalgia Modernism, Tradition, and Organicism in T. S. Eliot and Heaney Other Times: Contemporary Poetry's Breaks with the Past Conclusion: Imperfect Hindsight Notes Bibliography Index