IN ONE
VOLUMe,
The leading documents of the
past century that have shaped
THE MODERN
TRADITION
Backgrounds of Modern Literature
Edited
by
RICHARD ELLMANN
and CHAltLES FEIDELSON,
JR.
T
His
is the first major compre–
hensive analysis of one of the
most poorly defined areas of litera–
ture. "The modern tradition"
stretches from the romantic era to
the present, but what is modern and
what traditional in it, and what are
the similarities and differences of the
'writeJ;s that compose it? By as–
sembling the ideas of 101 poets,
'novelists, scientists, artists, and
philosophers, the editors' show the
persistence of certain patterns of
thought and feeling. For the first
time it is possible to study "the
'modern tradition" in all its complex–
ity, in all its depth of time, and in
all
its intellectual breadth.
The selections have been carefully
arranged in nine sections to repre-
"It is truly a superb anthology,
sent the major topics of modern
conceivet{ and executed with
consciousness. Each section is intro-
fine intelligence. It ,cannot fail
duced by a brief prospectus explain-
to be
of
the greatest interest
ing the relation of the ideas within
and usefulness to anyone con-
it, but the editors have avoided
cerned with modern culture or
extensive paraphrase and interpre-
with the history of culture
in
tation, letting the writers speak for
general." - LIONEL TRILLING
themselves.
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