false 30340 3 "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 30703 18 9 1973 The Pound Era total:84|5:59|4:20|3:4|2:0|1:1| 84 388 131 11 5 2 false false Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Thu Aug 09 02:01:06 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 09 02:19:12 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Apr 01 09:20:52 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 13:42:38 -0700 2008 -Ernest Fenollosa

Kenner's own acorn is the chapter titled "The Cantos- 2."

Viz: "There is no substitute for critical tradition" a continuum of understanding, ear...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Aug 30 15:16:38 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 30 15:17:58 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986 Sat Aug 23 21:11:13 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 23 21:32:50 -0700 2008
I might recommend this book for its literary merits alone--Kenner's prose has the depth, precision, and fun of Nabokov's--but the range of learning here is also quite stunning. It's an education. You may not always agree with...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jun 28 15:28:11 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 15:30:45 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Oct 23 09:51:18 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 23 09:52:57 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Sat Apr 12 22:23:39 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 12 22:24:32 -0700 2008
well worth reading

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