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"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience."  Archibald MacLeish.

Letters from Archibald MacLeish to T.S. Eliot:

  • May 9, 1944 offering him the position of Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress.

  • July 4, 1944 explaining the formal duties of the Consultant in Poetry

  • October 7, 1944 expressing disappointment that T.S. Eliot has declined his invitation to take the position of Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress.

Modernist Poetry - A collection of entries from Wikipedia

Gelpi, Albert. "The Genealogy of Postmodernism: Contemporary American Poetry."   The Southern Review, Summer 1990, pp. 517-541

Click the microphone to hear audio clips of T.S. Eliot reading his classic poem, "The Waste Land."

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UMass Online Library Resources

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Hayot, Eric.  "Critical Dreams: Orientalism, Modernism, and the Meaning of Pound's China.". Twentieth Century Literature, Winter99, Vol. 45 Issue 4, p511, 23p

Irvine, Dean.  "The Two Giovannis: P.K. Page's Two Modernisms." Journal of Canadian Studies, Winter2004, Vol. 38 Issue 1, p23-45.

Kern, Robert.  "Frost and Modernism." American Literature, Mar1988, Vol. 60 Issue 1, p1, 16p

Newcomb, John Timberman.  "Poetry 's Opening Door: Harriet Monroe and American Modernism."  American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography, Volume 15, Number 1, 2005, pp. 6-22

Reed, Brian M..  "Carl Sandburg's The People, Yes, Thirties Modernism, and the Problem of Bad Political Poetry." Texas Studies in Literature & Language, Summer2004, Vol. 46 Issue 2, p181-212.

Rifkind, Candida.  "Too Close to Home: Middlebrow Anti-Modernism and the Sentimental Poetry of Edna Jaques." Journal of Canadian Studies, Winter2005, Vol. 39 Issue 1, p90-114.

Utell, Janine.  "Virtue in Scraps, Mysterium in Fragments: Robert Graves, Hugh Kenner, and Ezra Pound."  Journal of Modern Literature, Fall2003, Vol. 27 Issue 1/2, p99-104

Vondeling, Johanna E.  "The Manifest Professional: Manifestos and Modernist Legitimation."  College Literature, Spring2000, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p127, 19p