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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464123603321

Autore

Cohen Milton A

Titolo

Beleaguered poets and leftist critics [[electronic resource] ] : Stevens, Cummings, Frost, and Williams in the 1930s / / Milton A. Cohen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2010

ISBN

0-8173-8445-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Disciplina

811/.5209

Soggetti

American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century

Right and left (Political science) in literature

Poets, American - 20th century - Political and social views

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- "Leftward ho!": migrations of writers, critics, and magazines in the 1930s -- Wallace Stevens: no more arpeggios -- E. E. Cummings: prolonged adolescent or premature curmudgeon? -- Robert Frost: a lone striker -- William Carlos Williams: proletarian versus Marxian.

Sommario/riassunto

Different as they were as poets, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Robert Frost, and Williams Carlos Williams grappled with the highly charged literary politics of the 1930's in comparable ways. As other writers moved sharply to the Left, and as leftist critics promulgated a proletarian aesthetics, these modernist poets keenly felt the pressure of the times and politicized literary scene. All four poets saw their reputations critically challenged in these years and felt compelled to respond to the new politics, literary and national, in distinct ways, ranging from rejection to in