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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Milton A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Politics and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Politics and literature.

Right and left (Political science) in literature.

Poets, American--20th century--Political and social views.

Poets, American.

Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955--Political and social views.

Stevens, Wallace.

Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962--Political and social views.

Cummings, E. E.

Frost, Robert, 1874-1963--Political and social views.

Frost, Robert.

Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963--Political and social views.

Williams, William Carlos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

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 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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8445-6

OCLC:

772459649