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The Orchards of Syon by Geoffrey Hill

- Abstract

Literary critics refer to the late 20th century as the age of the postmodern. As a glance at any standard handbook reveals, the term is virtually meaningless–a graceless cover for the manifold projects that came after literary modernism, which was itself



About the Author

Thomas L. Jeffers is the editor of The Norman Podhoretz Reader, to be published by the Free Press this month.