Surveys major literary trends from 1900-1945 in the Anglo-American tradition, including the characteristics of literary modernism. Covers both prose and poetry, as well as the relationship between ...

There are various ways to distinguish the modernist writer from the traditionalist. Here is one. The modernist’s editor, whether the writer be novelist or poet, is unlikely to pose that polite ...

“An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me: the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking & ultimately nauseating.” So goes ...