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- The year 1922 has been known as the annus mirabilis (“miracle year”) of Anglo-American literary modernism, chiefly because of the near-simultaneous publication of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” James Joyce’s Ulysses, and Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room.
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Because of books like Ulysses and The Waste Land, 1922 changed the reading public's perception of what literature could be – the poet WH Auden later said that the "climate" had...
Aug 9, 2017 · Yet the enduring interest of 1922 lies in the brilliance, madness, beauty, comedy and devastation with which writers that year fused the fragments of the ages to a noisily vapid postwar present.
Nov 28, 2013 · If it began in the 1890s and gathered in the Edwardian (pre-war) period, it was in 1922 that this new literary wave crested. One can identify a number of forces and factors that were instrumental. The traumatic effect of the First World War has broken, forever, old ways of looking at the world.
Sep 9, 2013 · Wikimedia Commons. In July of 1922, British artist and author Wyndham Lewis dropped in on Ezra Pound at his studio in Paris and found him boxing with a “splendidly built young man, stripped to...
Feb 3, 2022 · Professor John Mullan (UCL English Language & Literature) explains why 1922 was the year that literature changed, with Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and TS Eliot leading the way.
The year 1922 has been known as the annus mirabilis (“miracle year”) of Anglo-American literary modernism, chiefly because of the near-simultaneous publication of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” James Joyce’s Ulysses, and Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room.
By 1922 Forster — no modernist himself — appeared to have his literary career behind him, with his last novel Howards End 12 years in the past and only one more — A Passage to India — to come in his lifetime, though he would live almost another half century.
