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Technology. “Georgians” Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) James Joyce (1882-1941) T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) “Edwardians” Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) John Galsworthy (1867-1933) H. G. Wells (1866-1946) Other English writers
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Technology “Georgians” Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) James Joyce (1882-1941) T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) “Edwardians” Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) John Galsworthy (1867-1933) H. G. Wells (1866-1946) Other English writers Rebecca West (1892-1983) Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) George Orwell (1903-1950) Italian Futurists F. T. Marinetti (1876-1944) Giacomo Balla (1871-1958) Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) Carlo Carrà (1881-1966) Imagists and Vorticists Ezra Pound (1885-1972) T. E. Hulme (1883-1917) Wyndham Lewis (1884-1957) Amy Lowell (1874-1925) George Antheil, “Ballet Mécanique” (1926), Performed by the Mendelssohn String Quartet
Virginia Woolf James Joyce T. S. Eliot The “Georgians” D. H. Lawrence Lytton Strachey
Arnold Bennett H. G. Wells John Galsworthy The “Edwardians”
Max Beerbohm, Mr. H. G. Wells and his patent mechanical New Republic, and the Spirit of Pure Reason crowning him President (view of Presidential Palace in background) Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
James Joyce Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
1909 Benz Race Car Winged “Victory” of Samothrace
Umberto Boccioni, “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space” (1913)
Tenets of Imagism • Direct treatment of the ‘thing,’ whether subjective or objective. • To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation. • As regarding rhythm: to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not the sequence of a metronome.
“In a Station of the Metro” The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.
First editions of Pound’s “Des Imagistes” (1914) and Lowell’s “Some Imagist Poets” (1915) Yale Collection of American Literature,Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Wyndham Lewis, “Kermesse” (1912) Yale Center for British Art
Cover of second issue of BLAST Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library