Adjectives and the Work of Modernism in an Age of Celebrity

Hemingway refers to the lesson in A Moveable Feast: In the early 1920s, Pound was the man I liked and trusted the most as a critic . . ., the man who believed in the mot juste—the one and only correct word to use—the man who taught me to distrust adjectives as I would later learn to distrust certain people in certain situations. ................
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