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The tortured life of Scofield Thayer / James Dempsey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dempsey, James, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poets, American--20th century--Biography.
- Poets, American.
- Authors and publishers--United States--20th century--Biography.
- Authors and publishers.
- Thayer, Scofield, 1889-1982.
- Thayer, Scofield.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (258 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Scofield Thayer, as owner of The Dial during the 1920's, was the center of the flow of cultural ideas between the United States and Europe, particularly those of the various modernist movements. This is the first biography of Thayer.
- Contents:
- An intellectual sewer
- Homes of virtue
- Harvard
- Oxford during the war
- The Chicago Experiment
- Lady of the Sonnets
- Death of the prophet
- To the center of things
- Starting with a bang
- Manhattan love stories
- Anti-epithalamion
- To the great master
- Assessing the modern
- A millionaire in Red Vienna
- Teuton versus Francophile
- Barnes in eruption
- Feuds galore
- Annus Belli
- Freudless in Vienna
- Return of the prodigal
- The death of The Dial
- Thayer in eclipse
- Postmortem
- God, stars, and sea: Thayer's poetic legacy.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-4753-6
- 0-8130-5009-X
- 0-8130-4872-9
- OCLC:
- 870646883
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