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Waiting for the future
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Antique ideal
Many think that modernism is the opposite of classicism. But modernists like T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound were disgusted by the excesses of Romanticism and thus sought out more austere, classical forms of expressions.
Modernism’s occult roots
Modernism has its background in theosophy. Understandably, adherents today are not keen to talk about this.
Modernists were tempted by the totalitarian
Literary scholars often believe that texts can be studied outside their historical context. But in order to comprehend the modernist current, one must understand that its predecessor comprised utopists who wanted to see a new society and a new humankind.