On the Question of Modernism and the "Authentic"

Abstract

Vincent Sherry is Professor of english at Washington University in Saint Louis. his publications include The Uncommon Tongue: The Poetry and Criticism of Geoffrey Hill (1987), Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Radical Modernism (1993), James Joyce; ULYSSES (1995, 2d ed. 2004), and The Great War and the Language of Modernism (2003). he has edited the Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War (2005) and several volumes on post-Second World War British and Irish Poets for the Dictionary of Literary Biography (1984, 1985). he is currently writing the Blackwell biography of ezra Pound and a book-length study of english Modernism and pan-european Decadence. On the Question of Modernism and the “Authentic”