| Description |
1 online resource (265 pages) |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 1930s 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 involvement. & nbs |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 -- Political and social views
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Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962 -- Political and social views
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Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 -- Political and social views
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Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 -- Political and social views
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Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962 fast |
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Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 fast |
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Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 fast |
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Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 fast |
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American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Right and left (Political science) in literature.
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Poets, American -- 20th century -- Political and social views
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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American poetry
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Poets, American -- Political and social views
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Political and social views
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Politics and literature
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Right and left (Political science) in literature
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United States
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010017778 |
| ISBN |
9780817384456 |
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0817384456 |
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