The Little Review, April 1917 (Vol. 3, No. 10) by Various

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The Little Review, April 1917 (Vol. 3, No. 10) by Various is a literary magazine issue from the early 20th century. It showcases modernist criticism, poetry, and arts commentary, reflecting the era’s restless debates about aesthetic standards and the cultural tensions of wartime. The likely topic is the promotion and defense of new artistic values—especially in literature and performance—against conventional taste. This issue features sharp critiques and advocacy pieces: a skeptical appraisal of Mary MacLane’s confessional Diary of Human Days, Margaret C. Anderson’s polemic against Isadora Duncan’s “pseudo-art,” and a pair of essays championing James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, with extended quotations to illustrate its innovative style. The Vers Libre contest announces winners H. D. and Maxwell Bodenheim, prints additional free-verse entries by Aldington, O’Brien, Jeanne D’Orge, Stork, Ashleigh, Wolff, Sarah Bard Field, Miriam van Waters, and others, and offers candid editorial judgments on quality. There are announcements of a forthcoming Little Review bookshop and the major news that Ezra Pound will serve as Foreign Editor (with regular contributions from T. S. Eliot and access to Joyce and Wyndham Lewis), plus a lively readers’ section that debates recent performances and writing. The tone is combative, exploratory, and resolutely modern, eager to define what art is—and is not. (This is an automatically generated summary.)