'Sherry's study is at once broad in scope and refined in the detail of its exegeses, and moves deftly between some of the best-known documents of modernism and rich findings from the archive.' Modernist Studies Association Book Prize Committee (www.msa.press.jhu.edu)
1. The time of decadence; 2. The demonstrable decadence of modernist novels; 3. Ezra Pound, 1906–20; 4. T. S. Eliot, 1910–22.