Research Catalog

Title

Makers of the new : the revolution in literature, 1912-1939 / Julian Symons.

Author

Symons, Julian, 1912-

Publication

London : A. Deutsch, 1987.

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Details

Description

295 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• English literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Modernism (Literature)

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 276-287.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The men (and a woman) of 1912. Edward Marsh -- Harriet Monroe -- The men of 1914. Ezra Pound -- Imagism, what was it? -- Wyndham Lewis -- James Joyce -- T.S. Eliot -- The nature of modernism. The background -- Langauge and subject -- The egoist and the Little review. The first angel: Harriet Shaw Weaver -- The highly mechanised typing volcano -- The second angel: John Quinn -- The Little review -- The making and burning of Ulysses -- The end of the beginning. -- Meanwhile in America... -- Paris our dream. Robert McAlmon, representative man of the twenties -- Joyce: the growth of legend -- The beginning, really the beginning of modern writing -- 1922: the year of triumph. The recognition of Ulysses -- The Dial award to The waste land -- Eliot, Pound, Lewis: changing relationships -- The American way of modernism. William Carlos Williams and the variable foot -- 'Why don't you get Americanised? -- The blue eyes of success -- Here comes everybody, including Eugene Jolas -- The genuine phoneys -- Pound's progress: the Cantos -- Lewis and Eliot separate themselves from modernism -- 'The good days are finished': Americans go home -- The fates of the founding fathers. Joyce glorified -- Eliot sanctified -- Lewis ostracized -- Pound in a cage.

ISBN

0233980075

LCCN

^^^88209009^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library