Look at Wikipedia under VORTICISM and you’ll find it’s all there. That’s not what someone meant in your class by “the vortex of history” that must just be some big whirly thing, everyone rushing about in different directions, but it’s more interesting.
It wasn’t so “short-lived" either. It was proposed as a principle in Cambridge around 1973.
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On 24 Nov 2018, at 12:03 am, BRITISH-IRISH-POETS automatic digest system <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:53:28 +0000 From: Luke <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Meaning of 'Vortex'
A phrase that was used in class, on criticism, one that went *totally o*ver my head, was 'the vortex of history', in reference to Pound's work. I wondered whether what's meant there is when the poet's *personal life* sorta collapses (a metaphorical expression) into the *history of literature*. So Eliot could have his personal life to vivify his criticism, and maybe Pound can have his erudition animate his imprisonment etc.. Supposing that with those modernists that was partly due to the timing of artistic (perhaps social) events, then how could late modernists prolong that historical moment, or just capture a similar energy?
