The Sunday Telegraph London, November 17th, 2002
The Short Sharp Life of T. E. Hulme by Robert Ferguson Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, pounds 20, 313 pp pounds 18 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222 WHEN Ulysses was published in 1922, it was immediately denounced as a work of "literary Bolshevism". "It is experimental, anti- conventional, anti-Christian, chaotic, totally unmoral", said a writer for the Quarterly Review; and most of the great works of modernism provoked a similar reaction from contemporary observers. Famously, however, the great modernists themselves were often men of extremely conservative temperament. T. S. Eliot, Ezra Po...
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