Technology

George Antheil, “Ballet Mécanique” (1926), Performed by the Mendelssohn String Quartet

“Georgians”Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)James Joyce (1882-1941)T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)Lytton Strachey (1880-1932)

“Edwardians”Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)John Galsworthy (1867-1933)H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

Other English writersRebecca West (1892-1983)Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)George Orwell (1903-1950)

Italian FuturistsF. T. Marinetti (1876-1944)Giacomo Balla (1871-1958)Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916)Carlo Carrà (1881-1966)

Imagists and VorticistsEzra Pound (1885-1972)T. E. Hulme (1883-1917)Wyndham Lewis (1884-1957)Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

The “Georgians”

Virginia Woolf James Joyce T. S. Eliot

D. H. Lawrence Lytton Strachey

The “Edwardians”

Arnold Bennett John Galsworthy H. G. Wells

Max Beerbohm,Mr. H. G. Wells and hispatent mechanical New Republic, and the Spirit of Pure Reasoncrowning him President(view of PresidentialPalace in background)

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Rebecca West

Gilbert and Sullivan, “The Mikado” (Promotional Poster)

James Joyce Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Edward Gorey, cover for “The War of the Worlds”

1909 Benz Race CarWinged “Victory” of Samothrace

Giacomo Balla, “Speed of an Automobile + Lights” (1913)

Giacomo Balla, “Dog on a Leash” (1912)

Umberto Boccioni, “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space” (1913)

Wyndham Lewis, “Ezra Pound” (1939)

Tenets of Imagism

• Direct treatment of the ‘thing,’ whether subjective or objective.

• To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation.

• As regarding rhythm: to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not the sequence of a metronome.

“In a Station of the Metro”

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;

Petals on a wet, black bough.

First editions of Pound’s “Des Imagistes” (1914) and Lowell’s “Some Imagist Poets” (1915) Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Wyndham Lewis, “Kermesse” (1912)Yale Center for British Art

Cover of second issue of BLASTBeinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library