Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978) has been regarded as a lost modernist. Her extraordinary long poem Paris, written in 1919, is a journey through a day in post First World War Paris. It was considered by Virginia Woolf 'obscure, indecent, and brilliant'. Read today, the poem retains its exhilarating daring. Mirrlees's experimentalism anticipates The Waste Land; her writing is integral to the twentieth-century canon.