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



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Autore: Cohen Milton A Visualizza persona
Titolo: Beleaguered poets and leftist critics [[electronic resource] ] : Stevens, Cummings, Frost, and Williams in the 1930s / / Milton A. Cohen Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 p.)
Disciplina: 811/.5209
Soggetto topico: 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
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
Titolo autorizzato: Beleaguered poets and leftist critics  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8173-8445-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910788372603321
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