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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 antagonized, even enraged, the young literary radicals of the period; his long poem, "Owl's Clover," has been generally understood as a negative, even bitter response to leftist aesthetics.
Using the archives of many little-known political poets, Alan Filreis offers a detailed description of various literary-political battles, in which the very texture of the positions taken up in the movement between left and right becomes available to us in the language of the participants. Filreis demonstrates that radicals knew and appreciated modernism more than has been recognized, and that Stevens's poetry - as well as that of other then-eminent modernists - was significantly influenced by poets and critics on the Left. Modernism from Right to Left shows that the interactions between eminent modernists - Stevens, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams - and upstart radicals - Stanley Burnshaw, T.C.
Wilson, Ruth Lechlitner, Kenneth Fearing, Muriel Rukeyser, Willard Maas, and others - were far more dynamic than has been acknowledged during and beyond the eras of anticommunism. This book is a contribution to the cultural history of the American 1930s as well as a novel approach to an oft-studied figure.
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Nineteen thirties, Radicalism in literature, History and criticism, Political and social views, Modernism (Literature), American poetry, American Political poetry, Radicalisme, Politische Philosophie, Literatur, Geschichte 1930-1940, Modernisme (cultuur), Radikalismus, Stevens, wallace, 1879-1955, American poetry, history and criticism, 20th century, Political poetry, history and criticismPeople
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Modernism from Right to Left: Wallace Stevens, the Thirties, & Literary Radicalism (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
June 9, 2005, Cambridge University Press
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0521619408 9780521619400
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Modernism from right to left: Wallace Stevens, the thirties & literary radicalism
1994, Cambridge University Press
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0521453844 9780521453844
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"Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) did not save perhaps as many as ninety-five letters he received from his most regular correspondent in the 1930s, an odd man whom Stevens knew as "J. Ronald Lane Latimer.""
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