Britannica Releases the Landmark Eleventh Edition
Poet involved
What happened
The 11th edition of the 'Encyclopædia Britannica' was published by Cambridge University Press in Cambridge, England. Under editor Hugh Chisholm, this legendary edition transitioned from long, heavy monographs to shorter, highly readable articles, while maintaining exceptional scholarly depth. Featuring articles from global luminaries like Bertrand Russell and Marie Curie, the 11th edition captured human knowledge on the absolute brink of the First World War, serving as the definitive monument of Edwardian optimism.
Literary impact
The 11th edition is widely celebrated as an inspirational resource for early Modernist poets. Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and the Imagist poets mined its beautifully written entries for precise, striking imagery and historical details to construct their revolutionary poetic collages.
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