A STIMULATING WORK FROM HUGH KENNER

The Boston Globe | January 5, 1987| | Copyright

THE MECHANIC MUSE, by Hugh Kenner. Oxford University

Press. 136 pp. $13.95.

Did you know that the latter half of the 19th century was "the golden age of ironware, when every thinkable human activity save perhaps the reproductive was being mapped onto machinery"?

Or that "Ottmar Mergenthaler patented the linotype in 1885, at the center of the decade when the instigators of High Modernism were born (Picasso, '81; Stravinsky, Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, '82; William Carlos Williams, '83; Pound and Lawrence '85; Eliot '88)"?

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