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AN INDIVIDUALIST REVIEW

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THE EGOIST is also, in some sort, the organ of the Imagistes. The poetry published every fortnight in its columns is obviously the only interesting poetical matter now being written in English. The Imagistes are nothing if not self-appreciative. But then their critical tact is exquisite.

Let no one suppose that EGOIST writers have truck with the divers unseemly poetical journals of their unhappy country.

Among the contributors to THE EGOIST are: Dora Marsden, Remy de Gourmont, (translated by C. Sartoris and Richard Aldington), Ford Madox Hueffer, Ezra Pound, F. S. Flint, Richard Aldington, Allen Upward, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Frances Gregg, John Cournos, William Carlos Williams, “H. D.” Skipwith Cannell, Reginald Wright Kauffman, Muriel Ciolkowska, Huntly Carter.

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Transcriber’s Notes

Advertisements were collected at the end of the text.

The table of contents on the title page was adjusted in order to reflect correctly the headings in this issue of The Little Review.

The article “The Viennese Dramatists”—in the print interrupted on [page 35]—was continued on [page 55]. The continued text on page 55, starting with “... [namely, that the ordinary is really] ...”, was therefore moved directly after page 35.

The original spelling was mostly preserved. A few obvious typographical errors were silently corrected. All other changes are shown here (before/after):