Well, ummm, it depends on what you mean by accident, and what you mean
by nationality.
There are some well documented reasons why France became such an early
modernist hothouse, and it is not too difficult to understand why the
US, a young country that embraced the new, followed on tentatively
until after WW1 when it took over. The US was this strange creature
where the backward and the forward existed side by side - still is I
suppose.
Tim A.
On 30 Aug 2009, at 12:36, Jeffrey Side wrote:
> I agree. I don’t think nationality, per se, has anything to do with
> it. It
> is just an accident of history that modernism developed from the
> French
> and US poets.
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