Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Elisa (Lisa) New is a professor of English at Harvard, with specialities ...

Many a critic, determined to speak with clarity and certitude upon the dauntingly ambiguous subject of modern poetry in English—or upon modernism in general, for that matter—has found himself invoking ...

Margaret C. Anderson was at the center of a notorious literary-obscenity trial. Then she was forgotten.

Hugh Kenner, the quintessential expert on 20th century English-language literature who was equally at ease excoriating encyclopedias or explaining how Ezra Pound and James Joyce founded modernist ...

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Austin, Mary. The American Rhythm. 1923. New and enlarged ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1930. Bell, Michael. “Myths and Texts.” A History of Modernist Poetry, edited by ...

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 ...

DENNIS KERSTEN is an assistant professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Arts at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. USHA WILBERS is an assistant professor in the ...