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The Pound Era (Paperback, 1st Pbk. Ed)
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The Pound Era (Paperback, 1st Pbk. Ed)
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"Hugh Kenner's "The Pound Era" could as well be known as the Kenner
era, for there is no critic who has more firmly established his
claim to valuable literary property than has Kenner to the first
three decades of the 20th century in England. Author of pervious
studies of Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis and Pound (to name a
few), Kenner bestrides modern literature if not like a colossus
then at least a presence of formidable proportions. A new book by
him is certainly an event....A demanding, enticing book that
glitters at the same time it antagonizes....""The Pound Era"
presents us with an idiosyncratic but sharply etched skeletal view
of our immediate literary heritage."--"The New York Times"
"It is notoriously difficult to recognize degrees of pre-eminence
among one's near-contemporaries. We talk now of the age of Donne, a
label that would have seemed bizarre to Ben Johnson. Will "The
Pound Era" seem an appropriate designation, 50 or 100 years hence,
for the epoch we think of as 'modern'? Mr. Kenner's brilliantly
written book establishes an excellent case for supposing the answer
to be 'Yes.'"--"The Economist"
"Mr. Kenner's study...is not so much a book as a library, or
better, a new kind of book in which biography, history, and the
analysis of literature are so harmoniously articulated that every
page has a narrative sense...."The Pound Era" is a book to be read
and reread and studied. For the student of modern letters it is a
treasure, for the general reader it is one of the most interesting
books he will ever pick up in a lifetime of reading."--"National
Review"
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