Nonfiction
Autumn 1985
Modernist Abstraction and Pound’s First Cantos: The Ethos for a New Renaissance
“We base our ‘science’ on perceptions, but our ethics have not yet attained this palpable base.” (“Remy de Gourmont,” in Literary Essays of Ezra Pound)1 I Critics of modernist poetry […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1984
Picasso’s Collages and the Force of Cubism
I Among the many signs that modernism in painting and poetry has now for us lost its force and become an academic subject, I take as especially significant the gulf […]