Which text exemplifies the anti- Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century ?

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Which best describes the imagist movement, exemplified in the work of T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound ?

A. a poetic aesthetic vainly concerned with the way words appear on the page B. an effort to rid poetry of romantic fuzziness and facile emotionalism, replacing it with a precision and clarity of imagery C. an attention to alternate states of consciousness and uncanny imagery D. the resurrection of Romantic poetic sensibility...

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Which phrase indicates the interior flow of thought employed in high-modern literature ?

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