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MODERNISM IN LITERATURE

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ng right proportion

human nature has

as

and are not roses sewers? Is Life all dorous and never sweet? On the other hand, the Dear's indictment of modernism is equal ly extreme, falling into the fal Lacy of ticking literature off by wholesale labels through the Frecklessness of sheer ignorance. He confesses that he has not read “Ulysses or any of the works of D. H Lawrence or “the All lovers of Gilbert and Sulli-rebels in poetry." "In literature," van will remember how, when he says haughtily, "I prefer the Ko Ko assumed the reins of his dead lion to the live dog" Since high and honourable, if perplex- he has not read the modern fing, office of Lord High Execu-writers, how can he tell whether tioner in "The Mikado, he made they are dogs or hons, and out a black list of social offen-modernist might answer that he ders whose loss would be a gain prefers the living lion to the dead

one! The judicious and fair-- They mcluded

Such people as have flabby hands minded reader will realise that the modernist writer has to re- and irritating laughs,

༧

And the idiot who praises with present his age to some degree

and find new modes of expression - enthusiastic tone- All the centuries but this, and for new types of experience or

every country but his own; thought, such as those discover They'd none of 'em be missed ed by James Joyce and D. H

they'd none of 'em be missed. Lawrence in prose and T. S. Now the latest recruit to the Eliot in poetry. There must be ranks of those who praise every experiment, and some experi- century but their own is Bean ments will fail, some may suc Inge, who justines his famous ceed Almost every eres title of the Gloomy Dean by artist who has something

in his work writer, painter, about unmitigated pessimism "modernism in literature" in his musician has had to presidential address to the Eng-abuse of the reactionary fish Association, recently pub wagner, Rembrandt and

of his age, from Beethoven lished in pamphet form Modern

writers, being of this century, ler, to Wordsworth and write in its characteristic tem- For every classic of yesterday per and its special manner, and has been a modern in his time, the Dean very definitely does and some moderns of to-day will not like it He does not mince be the classics of to-morrow. Every e has its "modernism," matters. He speaks with a

and we

not to be misled by

super-Victorian frankness that is of time, but seek

might even be called "modern,”

for the good and gloomy Dean for the enduring qualities of is always provocative. Modern literature in any age including art, he feels, is "clearly patholo-even our own,

gical, whilst the whole attitude

of many modern writers, in The Anti-Semitic Wave

regard to various meral issues,

"is shameful and disgusting." There are indications

He can see no hope of “another wave of anti-Semitism

crop of exquisite flowers in a spread over Germany, Poland, modern civilisation, which is, un-and Rumania, is now spreading sure of itself, in an age which to other entries on the Con- features "complete intellectual tinent which have hitherto be

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chological novel, he finds, is larly Yugoslavia and characteristic of modernism, and In Yugo-Slavia it is consider "it excludes religion and ideal significant that the Chief R ism, imagination chas very little of that country, Dr. Alkalay, scope. His chief indictment of has been a member modernism in literature-- rests ate for the last

on the charge that it paints to have human character as a dret, dull, was the ignoble thing. The view of his con

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Realism is the dominant mode In Lithuama, in poetry well as m fiction, once enjoyed a SUPERHETERODYNE and your modern realist is often istry for their

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