Between centuries
Frank Kermode, 11 January 1990
Olivia Shakespear and W.B. Yeats
by John Harwood.
Macmillan, 218 pp., £35, January 1990,0 333 42518 9 Show More
by John Harwood.
Macmillan, 218 pp., £35, January 1990,
Letters to the New Island
by W.B. Yeats, edited by George Bornstein and Hugh Witemeyer.
Macmillan, 200 pp., £45, November 1989,0 333 43878 7 Show More
by W.B. Yeats, edited by George Bornstein and Hugh Witemeyer.
Macmillan, 200 pp., £45, November 1989,
The Letters of Ezra Pound to Margaret Anderson: The ‘Little Review’ Correspondence
edited by Thomas Scott, Melvin Friedman and Jackson Bryer.
Faber, 368 pp., £30, July 1989,0 571 14099 8 Show More
edited by Thomas Scott, Melvin Friedman and Jackson Bryer.
Faber, 368 pp., £30, July 1989,
Ezra Pound and Margaret Cravens: A Tragic Friendship, 1910-1912
edited by Omar Pound and Robert Spoo.
Duke, 181 pp., £20.75, January 1989,0 8223 0862 2 Show More
edited by Omar Pound and Robert Spoo.
Duke, 181 pp., £20.75, January 1989,
Postcards from the End of the World: An Investigation into the Mind of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
by Larry Wolff.
Collins, 275 pp., £15, January 1990,0 00 215171 5 Show More
by Larry Wolff.
Collins, 275 pp., £15, January 1990,
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
by Modris Eksteins.
Bantam, 396 pp., £14.95, September 1989,0 593 01862 1 Show More
by Modris Eksteins.
Bantam, 396 pp., £14.95, September 1989,
Esprit de Corps: The Art of the Parisian Avant-Garde and the First World War, 1916-1925
by Kenneth Silver.
Thames and Hudson, 506 pp., £32, October 1989,0 500 23567 8 Show More
by Kenneth Silver.
Thames and Hudson, 506 pp., £32, October 1989,
“... Lindbergh arrives, Nijinsky goes mad, Isadora Duncan breaks her neck, the shocking Josephine Baker came from St Louis, like T.S. Eliot, the man who pronounced printemps to be cruel. The interest is in the detail, not the thesis. A chapter on Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, and another on Hitler, the great aestheticiser (‘Nazism was a ... ”