... that it produced chaotic and difficult writing, that it moved beyond the capacity of many readers and became elitist. Indeed, it is true that readers need a background awareness of psychology, anthropology, history and aesthetics to master some of the literature of the early years of Modernism: T.S. Eliot even furnished footnotes to help the reader with his The Waste Land. But all through ... what might be termed the period of Modernism there were writers who kept working away in more traditional modes ... local accents makes him much closer to O'Casey than is often realised. The realist...

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