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  • Kazin stresses the unmodernity of modernism and the basic contradiction in it: "It is funny now to think of how resolutely antimodern (in spirit) high modernism felt itself to be ” while it expressed itself, as Pound did, in telescoped history and in formally disconnected images that were distinctly novel."

    An Exchange on Ezra Pound Reck, Michael 1986

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