Nurit RubinsteinDr. M. ShulakAmerican Literature II2.4.14 The Little ReviewMake no compromises for public taste (until we are prosecuted!)The little Review was a magazine founded in Chicago during the Chicago Literary Renaissance. The Literary Renaissance was a pivotal point in the history of literature and was the result of a Chicago literary festival in 1893 in which many prominent Middle Eastern writers were encouraged to come to Chicago to write. The height of this literary renaissance would reach its peak in the early 1900s with the publication of novels by Sherwood Anderson and Theodore Dreiser. The Little Review would be founded and published as a result of this movement. Margaret C. Anderson was the Joan of Arc in our literary crusade. Anderson began publishing The Little Review in Chicago in 1914. Anderson herself was originally from Indianapolis and from the upper middle class, but after college she gave up her conservative lifestyle, moved to Chicago, and began publishing The Little Review. Anderson's intentions were clear; he was creating this magazine for criticism to be part of current literary culture, because Anderson believed that “Criticism as an art has not flourished in this country. We live too fast to have time to be grateful; and criticism, after all, has only one synonym: appreciation”. (Small Review vol.1 number 1). By the time 1916 arrived, Anderson had already garnered some favorable attention. That same year Anderson met Jane Heap. These two women would become: lovers, colleagues, and essential in the development of an American canonization. Jane Heap joined 'The Little Review' in 1916 and, although her submissions were few and varied; yes...... middle of paper ......, which we learn from romance novels, are not realistic. Although Joyce and Eliot's stories are very different, one was deemed illegal for obscenity, while the other was the first and last of a dying breed. Both come to reflect the magazine for what it was, an avant-garde magazine. A magazine that published ideas that were completely outside the box, while remaining relevant to the public; Joyce and Eliot were pioneers of the modernist movement, but what made them unique was their brand of modernism; one that blended old ideas with new concepts. These were the men who represented The Little Review with their words, while their valiant leaders: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap and Ezra Pound were the ones who represented The Little Review through their admonition of their past lifestyles to embark on a new adventure , or perhaps an old adventure in a new light.