Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-1960

by Alan Filreis

Book Overview

During the Cold War an unlikely coalition of poets, editors, and politicians converged in an attempt to discredit--if not destroy--the American modernist avant-garde. Ideologically diverse yet willing to bespeak their hatred of modern poetry through the rhetoric of anticommunism, these "anticommunist antimodernists," as Alan Filreis dubs them, joined associations such as the League for Sanity in Poetry to decry the modernist "conspiracy" against form...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469614669
• ISBN13: 9781469614663
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"