sity Press, 1960), 36–37. I have translated the word philosophoteron as “philosophical”
rather than “scienti¤c,” which is misleading. Otherwise, I stick to the Fyfe transla-
tion, designating the traditional numbers for paragraphs.
- Plato, Republic, in The Collected Dialogues of Plato, ed. Edith Hamilton and
Huntington Cairns, trans. Lane Cooper, et al., Corrected edition (Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 1963), #387b, my emphasis. I give the standard paragraph
number rather than page since there are so many translations and editions of Re-
public. - Hayden White, Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century
Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973). - Rossetti’s work, both verbal and visual, is the subject of Jerome J. McGann’s
astonishingly comprehensive, beautifully produced, and learned Rossetti Archive at
http://w w w.iath.virginia.edu/rossetti. - The URLs are, respectively, http://w ww.samuel-beckett.net; http://w ww.
beckett.english.ucsb.edu; and http://w w w.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Beckett.htm. - See http://w w w.futurism.org.uk; http://w w w.toutfait.com; and http://w w w.
ubu.com. - See Peter Bürger, Theory of the Avant-Garde, foreword by Jochen Schulte-
Sasse, trans. Michael Shaw (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984), esp.
chapter 3. - See Theodor W. Adorno, “On Lyric Poetry and Society,” Notes to Literature,
vol. 1, ed. Rolf Tiedemann, trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen (New York: Columbia
University Press, 1991), 37–54, esp. 45. - Theodor W. Adorno, “Heine the Wound,” Notes to Literature, 80–85; esp. 82.
- George Steiner, “The Humanities—At Twilight?” PN Review 25, no. 4 (March–
April 1999): 23. The essay (18–24) was originally presented as a lecture at Boston Uni-
versity on 2 April 1998. - Frank O’Hara, “Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!),” The Collected Poems of
Frank O’Hara, ed. Donald Allen (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), 449.
Chapter 2
- See T. S. Eliot, letter to Ezra Pound, 24 January 1922, in The Letters of T. S.
Eliot, vol. 1: 1898–1922, ed. Valerie Eliot (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988), - On 27 January, Pound replied to Eliot’s query, “I do not advise printing G. as
preface. One don’t miss it at all as the thing now stands” (Letters, 505). - The same collection, with minor changes, was published a month later in
New York by Alfred A. Knopf under the title Poems and has come to be known as
Poems 1920. The variant texts of the poems in these two volumes is reprinted as Ap-
pendix C in T. S. Eliot, Inventions of the March Hare, Poems 1909–1917, ed. Christopher
Ricks (New York: Harvest Books, 1998), 347–84. - See Unsigned Review, “A New Byronism,” Times Literary Supplement, 18
March 1920; rpt. in T. S. Eliot: The Critical Heritage, vol. 1, ed. Michael Grant (Lon-
don: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982), 108; Desmond MacCarthy, “New Poets: T. S.
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