Before revision: Literary modernism is often summed up in a line written in The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats in 1919 : "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" .James Longenbach, for instance, quotes these words and says, 'What line could feel more central to our received notions of modernism?'
After revision: Literary modernism is often summed up in a line from W. B. Yeats Modernism, Romanticism, Philosophy and Symbol(in 'The Second Coming') : "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" .James Longenbach, for instance, quotes these words and says, 'What line could feel more central to our received notions of modernism?'