Antedating of "Postmodern"

[Fred Shapiro]

postmodern (OED3 1925)

1918 William Dean Howells in _Harper's Magazine_ Jan. 301 It seems to us
that in this point the post-moderns have gone beyond the old masters who
rather taught that there were penalties for--.

1921 Wilson Follett in _Harper's Magazine_ June 114  So much for the
misapplied theory which has helped set the artist's nerves a-quiver and
incited him to the fantastic extremes of post-modern art, literary and
other.

Fred Shapiro


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