Beleaguered Poets and Leftist Critics Stevens, Cummings, Frost, and Williams in The 1930s |
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| Author:
| Cohen, Milton A. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8173-1713-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2011 |
| Publisher: | University of Alabama Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $56.00 |
Book Description:
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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. 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...
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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. 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 of their responses.