News & Updates
- Poetry Now On Line
- The first seven volumes (1912-1916) of the MJP's projected edition of this magazine are now available via our Journals page. The remaining volumes through 1922 will be added during the current semester, and, when the run is complete, an Introduction by David Ben-Merre will complete the edition. For ideas about assignments using these issues, please follow this link.
- The Tyro: An Introduction
- An Introduction to The Tyro by Scott W. Klein is now available. As with our other Introductions, it is linked from the gateway page for that journal. You may also go directly to it from here. In it you will find a lucid explanation of what the "tyro" meant in Wyndham Lewis's response to modernity.
- The English Review: An Introduction
- An Introduction to The English Review by Nora Tomlinson is now available. As with our other introductions, it is linked from the gateway page for that journal. You may also go directly to it from here. In it you will find a thorough discussion of the achievements and the problems of Ford Madox Ford as the founding editor of this important modernist journal.
- “On or about December 1910...”
- Virginia Woolf famously observed that “on or about December 1910 human character changed” — by which she meant to locate the shift to modernism at the end of the reign of King Edward VII and the beginning of the reign of King George V. To assist teachers and students studying this transitional moment, the MJP will offer individual issues of British and American periodicals from 1910 and 1911. We expect to be adding these in the spring and summer of 2007 until we have a substantial number. Unlike our digital editions, however, these will be images backed up by text produced by a mechanical OCR process, and WILL NOT BE PART OF THE MJP SEARCHABLE DATABASE, though local searches may be performed on them. Such searches, however, will be less reliable than those in the main MJP collection. These samples are here mainly to provide a perspective on what was being thought, said, pictured, and advertised in both Britain and America at the moment when “human character changed …”
