THE
MODERNIST UPSET
Old
English American Modernism: Pound, Lewis, Lawrence, and Eliot
From 1908 to 1914 there was a strikingly useful time
of advancement and analysis as writers and artists attempted, in collections
and magazines, to challenge the scholarly shows of the new past as well as of
the whole post-Romantic period. Briefly, London, which up to that point had
been socially one of the bluntest of the European capitals, flaunted a cutting
edge to equal those of Paris, Vienna, and Berlin, regardless of whether its
driving character, Ezra Pound, and large numbers of its most remarkable figures
were American.