Presenter: Alex MacDonald
This illustrated talk was read in February of this year as part
of the University of Regina lecture series commemorating the centenary
of the start of World War I in 1914. The talk begins with the
observation made in many histories of the period, that the Great War was
a cultural watershed, and that a characteristic feature of this
watershed was the fragmentation of old ways of seeing the world. While
fragmentation is certainly evident in Imagist poetry of the years from
about 1910 to 1918, the other side of the binary is also present -- the
wish for wholeness
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