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Books

Pryor S, 2017, Poetry, Modernism, and an Imperfect World, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Pryor S, 2011, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound and the Poetry of Paradise, Original, Ashgate, Farnham, https://www.routledge.com/products/9781409406600

Book Chapters

Pryor S, 2024, 'Introduction', in Pryor S (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Poem, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 1 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009498852

Pryor S, 2024, 'Style', in Pryor S (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Poem, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 196 - 210, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009498852

Pryor S, 2023, 'Modernism and the Hymn', in Hobson S; Radford A (ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism, Myth and Religion, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 233 - 249

Pryor S, 2022, 'Canto 74', in Readings in the Cantos: Volume 2, Clemson University Press, Clemson, pp. 193 - 212

Pryor S, 2022, 'Historical Poetics', in Frow J (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 1864 - 1878, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.1108

Pryor S, 2021, 'Poetry and Transition', in Purdon J (ed.), British Literature in Transition, 1900-1920 A New Age?, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 244 - 259, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108648714

Pryor S, 2019, 'The Relation Between Poetry and Poems Is Political, Sometimes', in Communism and Poetry: Writing Against Capital, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 37 - 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17156-8

Pryor S; Pestell A, 2018, 'A to Z of Key Terms', in Maude U; Nixon M (ed.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist Literature, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, pp. 417 - 468, https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-bloomsbury-companion-to-modernist-literature-9781780936413/

Pryor S, 2018, 'Canto 17', in Parker R (ed.), Readings in the Cantos, Clemson University Press, pp. 155 - 164, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1ps31zp.17

Pryor SB, 2017, 'Body and Soul: Modernism, Metaphysics, Rhyme', in Sounding Modernism Rhythm and Sonic Mediation in Modern Literature and Film, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 149 - 163

Pryor SB, 2016, 'Modernist Measure: Poetry and Calculation', in Pryor SB; Trotter D (ed.), Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies, Open Humanities Press, London, pp. 166 - 177, http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/writing-medium-machine/

Pryor SB, 2015, 'Some Thoughts on Refrigeration [on Ezra Pound and Keston Sutherland]', in Parker R (ed.), News from Afar: Ezra Pound and Some Contemporary British Poetries, Shearsman Books, pp. 273 - 280, http://www.shearsman.com/ws-shop/category/796-books/product/4789-richard-parker---news-from-afar-ezra-pound-and-some-contemporary-british-poetries

Pryor SB, 2014, 'Late W. B. Yeats', in Oxford Handbooks Online, Oxford University Press, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935338.013.98

Pryor S, 2014, 'Making Evil, with Flann O'Brien', in Murphet ; McDonald ; Morrell (ed.), Flann O'Brien and Modernism, edn. 1st, Bloomsbury, London, UK, pp. 11 - 26, http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/flann-obrien-modernism-9781623568757/

Pryor S, 2013, 'The Trust and the Mistrust: Ezra Pound in Italy', in Attridge J; Rosenquist R (ed.), Incredible Modernism: Literature, Trust and Deception, edn. 2013, Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 163 - 179, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409439547

Pryor S, 2012, 'McCarthy's rhythm', in Murphet J; Steven M (ed.), Styles of Extinction: Cormac McCarthy's The Road, edn. Original, Continuum, New York, pp. 27 - 44

Pryor S, 2010, 'Anne Stevenson and the Poetry of Place', in Leighton A (ed.), Voyages Over Voices: Critical Essays on Anne Stevenson, edn. Original, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, pp. 125 - 150

Pryor S, 2007, '‘Reported to me from Sydney, Australia’: Reading Eliot Down Under and in the Mother Country', in Däumer E; Bagchee S (ed.), The International Reception of T. S. Eliot, edn. Original, Continuum, London, pp. 284 - 291

Pryor S, 2007, 'Iconicity and the Divine in the Fin de Siècle Poetry of W. B. Yeats', in Tabakowska E; Ljungberg C; Fischer O (ed.), Insistent Images (Iconicity in Language and Literature), edn. Original, John Benjamins Publishing Co, Amsterdam, pp. 91 - 102

Edited Books

Pryor S, (ed.), 2024, The Cambridge Companion to the Poem, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009498852

Pryor S; Frow J; Byron M; Goulimari P; Rak J, (eds.), 2022, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory, Oxford University Press, Oxford, https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-encyclopedia-of-literary-theory-9780190699604?cc=au&lang=en&#

Pryor SB; Trotter D, (ed.), 2016, Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies, Open Humanities Press, London, http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/writing-medium-machine/

Journal articles

Pryor S, 2021, 'Who Bought Paris? Hope Mirrlees, the Hogarth Press, and the Circulation of Modernist Poetry', ELH, 88, pp. 1055 - 1082, https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/839962

Pryor S, 2021, 'Experiences Differ: A Reflection on Teaching Literary Studies', Australian Humanities Review, pp. 54 - 58, http://australianhumanitiesreview.org/2021/05/31/experiences-differ-a-reflection-on-teaching-literary-studies/

Pryor S, 2020, 'The Episode on the Staircase: Poetry, Energy, Space', Critical Quarterly, 61, pp. 91 - 99, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/criq.12508

Pryor S, 2019, 'A poetics of occasion in Hope Mirrlees's Paris', Critical Quarterly, 61, pp. 37 - 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/criq.12452

Etherington B; Pryor S, 2019, 'Historical poetics and the problem of exemplarity', Critical Quarterly, 61, pp. 3 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/criq.12450

Pryor S, 2018, 'Yeats and Futurity', Essays in Criticism, 68, pp. 327 - 348, https://academic.oup.com/eic/article/68/3/327/5050219?guestAccessKey=5eec2426-74c3-4a09-a980-1fc2c470d04f

Pryor S, 2018, 'So Slow: Canto CVI', Glossator, 10, pp. 287 - 307, https://solutioperfecta.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/g10-106-pryor.pdf

Pryor SB, 2016, 'Inhuman Words: Philology, Modernism, Poetry', Modernism/Modernity, 23, pp. 555 - 571, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mod.2016.0051

Pryor SB, 2015, 'Stevenson among the Balladeers', Victorian Studies, 57, pp. 33 - 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.57.1.33

Pryor S, 2013, 'Ezra Pound's Adams Cantos', MODERNISM-MODERNITY, 20, pp. 615 - 617, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mod.2013.0090

Pryor SB, 2013, 'Satyriast's Beatitudes: John Rodker's Hymns', Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 55, pp. 473 - 492, http://dx.doi.org/10.7560/TSLL55406

Pryor S, 2012, 'Poetry and Decision: F. T. Prince in September 1938', Review of English Studies, 63, pp. 818 - 840, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/res/hgs001

Pryor S, 2011, 'Happiness and Happening in Harmonium', Wallace Stevens Journal, 35, pp. 174 - 187, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wsj.2011.0032

Pryor S, 2010, '"How Will You Know?": Paradise, Painting, and the Writing of Ezra Pound's Canto 3', PAIDEUMA - Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry, 37, pp. 267 - 292

Pryor S, 2010, 'Particularly Dangerous Feats: The Difficult Reader of the Difficult Late Cantos', PAIDEUMA - Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry, 36, pp. 27 - 45

Pryor S, 2002, 'Sex drives: Fantasies of fascism in literary modernism', MODERNISM-MODERNITY, 9, pp. 703 - 704, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mod.2002.0076

Other

Pryor S, 2020, "Some Questions about the Use of Diction in Poetry", http://www.tupeloquarterly.com/sean-pryor/

Pryor S, 2020, Review of Oliver Tearle, The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem, https://affirmationsmodern.com/articles/112/


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