This paper purports to introduce Michael Bell`s Literature, Modernism and Myth in two directions: Michael Bell as an analytic successor of F. R. Leavis as well as a diagnostic interpreter of modernism in twentieth-century literature. In the course of elaborating on its key words ‘literature,’ ‘modernism,’ ‘myth,’ this essay critically clarifies Michael Bell`s elucidating thinking on the mythopoeic characteristics of creative modernists across Europe, North America, and South America. Being subtitled “Belief and responsibility in the twentieth century,” Literature, Modernism and Myth is a potentially compelling text to the readership of the humanities in general in that it leads us to radically rethink literary modernism as a historically constructed-especially via Nietzsche-category while interrogating the role of literary critics in modern society.