02857nam 2200589 a 450 991078837260332120200520144314.00-8173-8445-6(CKB)3170000000046618(EBL)835612(OCoLC)772459649(SSID)ssj0000588922(PQKBManifestationID)11410307(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000588922(PQKBWorkID)10650921(PQKB)11076757(MdBmJHUP)muse9080(Au-PeEL)EBL835612(CaPaEBR)ebr10527798(MiAaPQ)EBC835612(EXLCZ)99317000000004661820100504d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBeleaguered poets and leftist critics[electronic resource] Stevens, Cummings, Frost, and Williams in the 1930s /Milton A. CohenTuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20101 online resource (278 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-1713-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 inAmerican poetry20th centuryHistory and criticismPolitics and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryRight and left (Political science) in literaturePoets, American20th centuryPolitical and social viewsAmerican poetryHistory and criticism.Politics and literatureHistoryRight and left (Political science) in literature.Poets, AmericanPolitical and social views.811/.5209Cohen Milton A856424MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788372603321Beleaguered poets and leftist critics3840602UNINA