Audacious Reconciliation

Enmity between G.K. Chesterton and the “Men of 1914”—Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and T. S. Eliot—helped to define the modernism of the latter. Yet by the end of the 1920s the hostility on both sides disappeared. Tracing the complex history of the antipathy and its reversal, Michael Shallcross brilliantly demonstrates the self-divided affinities underlying the public performances of the antagonists.