Pseudo-modernists pursue individual style because they know they cannot make a name without it; but if they had lived in the eighteenth century their sole object would have been to write correctly, to conform to the manner of the period. In practice, their conforming individualism means an imitation, studiously concealed, of the eccentricities of poems which really are individual.


Laura Riding and Robert Graves from A Survey of Modernist Poetry (London: Heinemann, 1927)

Laura Riding Quotes

Pseudo-modernists pursue individual style because they know they cannot make a name without it; but if they had lived in the eighteenth century their ...

Pseudo-modernists pursue individual style because they know they cannot make a name without it; but if they had lived in the eighteenth century their ...

Pseudo-modernists pursue individual style because they know they cannot make a name without it; but if they had lived in the eighteenth century their ...

Pseudo-modernists pursue individual style because they know they cannot make a name without it; but if they had lived in the eighteenth century their ...