The long voyage : selected letters of Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1987 / edited by Hans Bak ; foreword by Robert Cowley.

Critic, poet, editor, chronicler of the Lost Generation, elder statesman of the Republic of Letters, Malcolm Cowley (1898­-1989) was an eloquent witness to American literary and political life. His letters, mostly unpublished, provide a self-portrait of Cowley and his time and make possible a full a...

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Main Author: Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989
Other Authors: Bak, Hans (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Foreword: Beyond the Dry Season
  • Robert Cowley
  • Editorâ€?s Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • I. Harvard, World War I, Greenwich Village, 1915-1921
  • Harvard, 1915â€? 1917
  • France, 1917
  • Harvard and Greenwich Village, 1917-1921
  • II. Pilgrimage to Holy Land-France, 1921-1923
  • III. The City of Anger-New York, 1923-1929
  • Dada in New York, 1923-1925
  • Freelance, 1925-1928
  • The End of a Literary Apprenticeship, 1929
  • IV. The Depression Years-Literature and Politics, 1930-1940
  • The Red Romance, 1930-1934
  • Hart Crane †1932
  • The High 1930s: Unity and Discord on the Left, 1934-1937The Fading of a Dream, 1938-1940
  • V. The War Years, 1940-1944
  • War and Washington, 1940-1942
  • Retrenchment and Rehabilitation, 1942-1944
  • VI. The Mellon Years, 1944-1949
  • Literary History of the United States (1948)
  • VII. Literature and Politics in Cold War America, 1949-1954
  • VIII. Worker at the Writerâ€?s Trade, 1954-1960
  • IX. The Sixties
  • The Sixties: Old Left, New Left, and the Community of Letters, 1960-1965
  • The Sixties: Retrospection and Consolidation, 1966-1970
  • X. Man of Letters, 1970-1987Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index