Modernism from Right to Left: Wallace Stevens, the Thirties, & Literary Radicalism

by Alan Filreis

Book Overview

Part biography and part literary history, this book is about the experience of the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens in the 1930s. Stevens is generally thought to have antagonised, even engaged, the young literary radicals of the period. Using the archives of many little-known political poets, Alan Filreis offers a detailed description of these battles, in which the very texture of the various positions taken up in the movement between left...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521619408
• ISBN13: 9780521619400
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"