The Little Review, August 1917 (Vol. 4, No. 4): Poetry Guide and Free Edition
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The Little Review, August 1917 (Vol. 4, No. 4) is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Various.
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"The Little Review, August 1917 (Vol. 4, No. 4) by Various" is an avant‑garde literary magazine issue from the early 20th century. It is a modernist arts publication featuring poetry, criticism, and experimental prose and drama. The likely topic is the defense and exploration of new artistic methods and tastes against mainstream expectations. This issue opens with W. B. Yeats’s Seven Poems, a poignant sequence around a dying lady that blends wit, ritual, and mortality. Ezra Pound’s List of Books offers sharp criticism and advocacy, discussing John Butler Yeats’s letters, James Joyce’s A Portrait, translations of Japanese Noh drama, Arnold Dolmetsch’s performance practice, and T. S. Eliot’s Prufrock. John Rodker’s Theatre Muet presents imagistic, silent‑stage tableaux; Pound’s Stark Realism sketches satirical American types; and Iris Barry contributes spare, observant poems on desire, work, marriage, and decline. Margaret Anderson’s editorial, What the Public Doesn’t Want, argues for artistic integrity over public taste, while Louis Gilmore’s Orientale offers a lush, sensuous monologue. The Reader Critic section stages debates on art, propaganda, war writing, and audience, rounding out a concentrated statement of modernist priorities.
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- Title: The Little Review, August 1917 (Vol. 4, No. 4)
- Author credits: Various
- Catalogue language: English
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- Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- Periodicals
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- Category: Journals
- Category: Poetry
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