The Living Moment: Modernism in a Broken World

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The Living Moment Also by Jeffrey Hart Political Writers of Eighteenth-Century England Viscount Bolingbroke, Tory Humanist When the Going Was Good! American Life in the Fifties From This Moment On: America in 1940 Acts of Recovery: Essays on Culture and Politics Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher Education The Making of the American Conservative Mind The Living Moment Modernism in a Broken World Jeffrey Hart northwestern university press evanston, illinois Northwestern University Press www.nupress.northwestern.edu Copyright © 2012 by Northwestern University Press. Published 2012. All rights reserved. An earlier version of chapter 1, “Robert Frost and T. S. Eliot: Modernisms,” was first published in the Sewanee Review 114, no. 4 (Fall 2006). Copyright © 2006 by Jeffrey Hart. Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hart, Jeffrey Peter, 1930–    The living moment : modernism in a broken world / Jeffrey Hart.    p. cm.    ISBN 978-0-8101-2821-7 (pbk. : alk. paper)    1. Modernism (Literature)—History and criticism. 2. Literature, Modern—20th century—History and criticism. I. Title. PN56.M54H37 2012 809.9112—dc23 2012005927 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. To Nancy, who makes it all possible An odd secret excitement, a strange need, To be there with words when the heartbeat happened. —Mark Van Doren Speech is the body of the Spirit. —Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy ...