The age demanded an image / Of its accelerated grimace, / Something for the modern stage, / not, at any rate, an attic grace.” These famed lines from Ezra Pound’s “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” (1919) suggest the tragic consequences of World War I-that “senseless slaughter,” as Ernest Hemingway called it. Pound’s challenge hinted at conseque (...)
September 22, 2006
Books
The Limits of Language
Into ItPoemsLawrence JosephFarrar, Straus and Giroux, $20, 67 pp.
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