Modern Epic : The World System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry Nominee (2015) The grenade took an age

The grenade took an age to travel through its 20 metre arc

with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers

and ultimately a love letter to Harlem

but about ourselves

Sudarshan Kriya

Modern Epic : The World System from Goethe to Garcia Marquez T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry Nominee (2015) The grenade took an ageTake Faust , what is it? A tragedy, as its author states? A great philosophical tale? A collection of lyrical insights? Who can say. How about Moby Dick ? Encyclopedia, novel or romance? Or even a singular medley, as one anonymous 1851 review put it? It is no longer a novel, T. S. Eliot said of Ulysses . But if not novels, then what are they?Literary history has long been puzzled by how to classify and treat these aesthetic monuments. In this highly