Tim, I agree. By "accident" I was trying to reassure Allison that
modernism was not the result of a planned concerted effort by the US
and French to purposely marginalise poetries form other countries.
On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:26:23 +0100, Tim Allen <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>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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