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Dial, The (II)

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The Dial was a literary magazine prominent in the Modernist movement (The original Dial, having been a central publication of the Transcendentalist movement in the early 1840s). Influential work published included Yeat's The Second Coming and T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland. Ezra Pound was the The Dial's 'foreign advisor/editor' between 1920-1923.

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