The Little Review (1914–29)

Exemplarity and quotation: Ezra Pound's How to Read, modernist criticism, and the limits of close reading

“…The quality remained somewhat atypical in the Little Review around this time, where even if evaluation was expected, the use of quotation to support a specific claim about an author's style was not the norm. But the observable shift in method nevertheless aided the 'ongoing and often heated conversation about modernism' that took place within the Little Review, 17 and it anticipated the new 'Discussion' section that featured critical reviews from May 1919 to March 1921. In the Little Review, as elsewhere, the project of evaluating new writing publicly in print involved different methods of recording readers' private evaluations.…”