Though only 34 years old at the time of his death in 1917, T. E. Hulme had already taken his place at the center of pre-war London's advanced intellectual circles. His work as poet, critic, philosopher, aesthetician, and political theorist helped define several major aesthetic and political movements, including imagism and Vorticism. Despite his influence, however, the man T. S. Eliot described as 'classical, reactionary, and revolutionary' has until very recently been neglected by scholars, and "T. E. Hulme and the Question of Modernism" is the first essay collection to offer an in-depth...
Though only 34 years old at the time of his death in 1917, T. E. Hulme had already taken his place at the center of pre-war London's advanced intellec...