The long voyage : selected letters of Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1987 / edited by Hans Bak ; foreword by Robert Cowley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989.

Contributor:

Bak, Hans.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989--Correspondence.

Cowley, Malcolm.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (630 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Critic, poet, editor, chronicler of the Lost Generation, elder statesman of the Republic of Letters, Malcolm Cowley (1898­-1989) was an eloquent witness to American literary and political life. His letters, mostly unpublished, provide a self-portrait of Cowley and his time and make possible a full appreciation of his long, varied career.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Foreword: Beyond the Dry Season

Editor’s Preface

Abbreviations

I. Harvard, World War I, Greenwich Village, 1915–1921

II. Pilgrimage to Holy Land—France, 1921–1923

III. The City of Anger—New York, 1923–1929

IV. The Depression Years—Literature and Politics, 1930–1940

V. The War Years, 1940–1944

VI. The Mellon Years, 1944–1949

VII. Literature and Politics in Cold War America, 1949–1954

VIII. Worker at the Writer’s Trade, 1954–1960

IX. The Sixties

X. Man of Letters, 1970–1987

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780674728240

0674728246

9780674728226

067472822X

OCLC:

870646928