Modernist Centenaries, Anniversaries, and Commemorations

Abstract

On January 24, 1922, in a series of correspondence about the edits to The Waste Land, just over a week before James Joyce’s Ulysses would be published, Ezra Pound wrote from Paris to T. S. Eliot that “It is after all a grrrreat littttterary period.”[1] 2022 has been a year of commemoration in modernist studies, looking back at the key works of high modernism’s annus mirabilis