Is Modernism a few ground-breaking works by a handful of writers-Pound, Eliot, Joyce, Wyndham Lewis? Other writers loomed large at the time; their work points in untaken directions. Andrew Crozier assembles the first definitive text of the poems and important fiction of John Rodker, whose work was set in the balance with Eliot's and Joyce's by Pound and Lewis and was not found wanting.
Rodker's East End Jewish background-the world of Resenberg, Mark Gertler and his friend David Bomberg (who designed the cover of his first book-and his fascination with radical theatre at the time, define...