The Little Review, June 1917 (Vol. 4, No. 2) by Various
"The Little Review, June 1917 (Vol. 4, No. 2) by Various" is a literary magazine issue from the early 20th century. It gathers modernist poetry, essays, translations, criticism, and reader correspondence. The likely topic is the ferment of contemporary arts and ideas—poetry’s new forms, debates over censorship and taste, and the pressures of wartime culture on aesthetics and society. This issue features translations of Li Po’s lyrics—delicate images of intoxication, memory, and
mountain quiet—followed by “Push-Face,” a sharp polemic reporting an anti-conscription crowd in New York and skewering fashionable charity pageantry. A brief imagist meditation by Louis Gilmore leads into a major suite of poems by W. B. Yeats on aging, passion, loss, and enduring beauty. Ezra Pound contributes a dialogic fantasia with Rabelais that tests censorship, philology, university pedantry, and the freedoms and follies of different ages. Wyndham Lewis’s letter from Petrograd contrasts Russian psychological realism with English patriotic myth-making and argues for the “little man” against gentlemanly varnish. “The Reader Critic” section crackles with notes from James Joyce and spirited debates over editorial practice, poetic value, and magazine ethics, including rejoinders to The Dial and a pointed exchange with Mary MacLane. The number closes with bookshop offerings, announcements of forthcoming work, and publishing notices. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Jens Sadowski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. This book was produced from images made available by the Modernist Journal Project, Brown and Tulsa Universities.
Reading Level
Reading ease score: 72.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
