‘Year 1 p.s.U.’
Anthony Domestico August 6, 2012 - 9:44am
Modernist Humanism and the Men of 1914
Joyce, Lewis, Pound, and Eliot
Stephen Sicari
University of South Carolina Press, $59.95,
248 pp.
Ezra Pound was a champion rabble-rouser—a man whose career proves that, at least in literary quarrels, the key to winning is often to speak more loudly, and with more confidence, than one’s opponents. Given his zest for polemical overstatement, we shouldn’t be surprised to learn that, in 1922, Pound publicly declared the end of the Christian era. With the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Pound said, Christianity had reached a terminal point. What...
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