KENNER, Hugh

From his beginnings an audacious, independent, and prolific literary critic-scholar, Kenner has produced two kinds of books—eccentric and often oblique studies of the accepted literary modernists and less oblique books about such avant-garde figures as Ezra Pound (back in 1951, when his subject was still imprisoned and academically unacceptable), Wyndham Lewis , and Buckminster Fuller . This means that Kenner exhibits courage not only in his choice of subjects...