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Beleaguered Poets and Leftist Critics: Stevens, Cummings, Frost, and Williams in the 1930s
Dr. Milton A. Cohen
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
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 politicised 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. ‘Beleaguered Poets and Leftist Critics’ closely examines the dynamics ... Read more
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 politicised 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. ‘Beleaguered Poets and Leftist Critics’ closely examines the dynamics ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University Alabama Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817317133
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V9780817317133
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