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Aet. 29, to a literary critic. “A Modern Poem” is the last and longest of the Pagan Poems. George Moore’s “synthesis of modern life” was not to be written in verse, but his intentions resurfaced in several later stories and plays. In Confessions of a Young Man (1888, p. 115), he wrote that his canon “should explain all things and embrace modern life in its entirety, in its endless ramifications, be… a new creed in a new civilization.”