In the earliest decades of the modernist movement many interpretations of it took the form of parodies. Mock Modernism is an anthology of these amusing pieces, the overwhelming majority of which have not been in print since the first decades of the twentieth century.

Leonard Diepeveen is a professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University.

“It is a delight to meet such characters as J.C. Squire, Edmund George Valpy Knox, and Don Marquis, as well as to see more familiar writers such as Louis Untermeyer and Ford Madox Ford poke fun at the pretenses of their contemporaries.”

Marsha Bryant, Department of English, University of Florida:

“Mock Modernism is fascinating, and sometimes even delightful. I have never seen anything quite like it.”