Blast was the short-lived literary magazine of the Vorticist movement in Britain. Two editions were published: the first on 2 July 1914, featuring a bright pink cover, referred to by Ezra Pound as the
Cover of the first edition of Blast, 1914
The first section of Wyndham Lewis' Manifesto, Blast 1, 1914
Thomas Ernest Hulme was an English critic and poet who, through his writings on art, literature and politics, had a notable influence upon modernism. He was an aesthetic philosopher and the father of