Blast: Review of the Great English Vortex

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

Ed. by Chris Baldick, Goldsmiths College, University of London
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Birmingham Newman University), Louise McDonald (Birmingham Newman University), Andrew Radford (University of Glasgow)

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Date of occurrence 1914-07-02-1915-07

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Blast: Review of the Great English Vortex

(1914-15) was an avant-garde magazine edited by the artist and writer Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), of which only two issues appeared, in July 1914 and July 1915. Despite its ephemeral status, caused by the outbreak of the First World War, it was a landmark in the emergence of modernism in London, achieving notoriety for its leading contributors, Lewis and Ezra Pound. It appeared to proclaim a new movement, “Vorticism”, without having settled on an agreed conception of what that meant: several contributors, having been led to expect a Cubist-Futurist-Imagist publication, had not even been told about Vorticism, which had been half-formulated at a late stage of the first issue’s production by Lewis, Pound, and the French sculptor Henri…

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Citation: Baldick, Chris. "Blast: Review of the Great English Vortex". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 May 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19617, accessed 18 April 2024.]

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