Dial, The (II)

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The Dial

was a literary magazine prominent in the Modernist movement (The original

Dial

, having been a central publication of the Transcendentalist movement in the early 1840s). Influential work published included Yeat's

The Second Coming

and T. S. Eliot's

The Wasteland

. Ezra Pound was the

The Dial

's 'foreign advisor/editor' between 1920-1923.

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