Request for help - modernism in literature

[Richard Harter]

Would some kind soul offer some recommendations on books or web sites re
modernism in literature?

Danke

Richard Harter, c...@tiac.net, The Concord Research Institute
URL = http://www.tiac.net/users/cri, phone = 1-978-369-3911
"Clarity is a vice; of course, there is much to be said
for vice." - Nathan Childers

[Puss in Boots]

Richard:

> Would some kind soul offer some recommendations on books or web sites re
> modernism in literature?

Could you be any less specific? Here's a few, off the top of my
head. Hugh Kenner's _The Pound Era_ is wonderful -- definitely my
top recommendation. _The Modern Tradition_, ed. Ellman and Feidelson,
is a big, fat teaching anthology. Oxford Press has a smaller one,
edited by Kermode and Hollander, with a tighter focus; _Modern British
Literature_ is the title. There's a helpful collection of essays
called _Modernism_, ed. Bradbury and McFarlane. _Modern Poetics_ is a
nice anthology of statements by poets like Yeats, Pound, Frost, and
Eliot (ed. Scully). Lots of good stuff there.

-- Moggin

[Richard Harter]

>Richard:

>nice anthology of statements by poets like Yeats, Pounds, Frost, and

>Eliot (ed. Scully). Lots of good stuff there.

Thank you kindly. I will pass this on to the confused soul who asked it
of me.

[Maureen & Stephen Scobie]

In article <65og5d$4...@news-central.tiac.net>, c...@tiac.net (Richard
Harter) wrote:

> Would some kind soul offer some recommendations on books or web sites re
> modernism in literature?

An old standby is "Modernism," edited by Malcolm Bradbury and James
McFarlane, in the Pelican Guides to European Literature series. It's a bit
dated (1976), and decidedly male-biased, but it's a good overview.

Another old standby, much more personal and eclectic, is Hugh Kenner's "The
Pound Era." For those who hold to the somewhat old-fashioned view that
modernism in English literature was defined by Ezra, this is still the
Bible.

Shari Benstock's "Women of the Left Bank: Paris 1900-1940" is a valuable
corrective to many accounts of modernism. As against the
Yeats/Pound/Eliot/Joyce hierarchy, it introduces the idea of another
modernist canon: Gertrude Stein, H.D., Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy.

Stephen