Delightful and brilliant plunge into the Modernist epoch. As much a work of art as criticism, Kenner’s book brings the 1905-1939 era alive with surging yet layered vividness. Like his subjects (Pound, Eliot, Joyce, HD) Kenner has mastered the "luminous detail" -the one vivid image that achieves a "raid on the inarticulate" giving clarity and voice to the formerly murky and unsung. ( )