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Hugh Kenners The Pound Era could as well be known as the Kenner era forthere is no critic who has more firmly established his claim to valuableliterary property than has Kenner to the first three decades of the 20thcentury in England. Author of pervious studies of Joyce T.S. Eliot WyndhamLewis and Pound to name a few Kenner bestrides modern literature if not likea colossus then at least a presence of formidable proportions. A new book byhim is certainly an event....A demanding enticing book that glitters at thesame time it antagonizes....The Pound Era presents us with an idiosyncraticbut sharply etched skeletal view of our immediate literary heritage.The NewYork TimesIt is notoriously difficult to recognize degrees of preeminence among onesnearcontemporaries. We talk now of the age of Donne a label that would haveseemed bizarre to Ben Johnson. Will The Pound Era seem an appropriatedesignation 50 or 100 years hence for the epoch we think of as modern? Mr.Kenners brilliantly written book establishes an excellent case for supposingthe answer to be Yes.The EconomistMr. Kenners study...is not so much a book as a library or better a new kindof book in which biography history and the analysis of literature are soharmoniously articulated that every page has a narrative sense....The PoundEra is a book to be read and reread and studied. For the student of modernletters it is a treasure for the general reader it is one of the mostinteresting books he will ever pick up in a lifetime of reading.NationalReview «
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