Beleaguered Poets and Leftist Critics: Stevens, Cummings, Frost, and Williams in the 1930s

by Milton A. Cohen

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817317139
• ISBN13: 9780817317133
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.0"