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The main modernist poets had written with assurance in their bones, as if they knew their worth and knew that posterity would one day know it, too. But the poets who came after them were less sure; they knew something had gone wrong. And they were right.


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Joseph Epstein is the author of Plausible Prejudices and Once More Around the Block, among other books. A new collection of his essays, Partial Payments, will be published by Norton early next year.

 

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