{"product_id":"beleaguered-poets-and-leftist-critics-milton-a-cohen-9780817317133","title":"Beleaguered Poets and Leftist Critics: Stevens, Cummings, Frost, and Williams in the 1930s","description":"\u003cp\u003eDifferent 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. As other writers moved sharply to the Left, and as leftist critics promulgated a proletarian aesthetics, these modernist poets keenly felt the pressure of the times and politicized literary scene. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeleaguered Poets and Leftist Critics\u003c\/i\u003e closely examines the dynamics of these responses: what these four poets wrote--in letters, essays, lectures, fiction (for Williams), and most importantly, in their poems; what they believed politically and aesthetically; how critics, particularly leftist critics, reviewed their work; how these poets reacted to that criticism and to the broader milieu of leftism. Each poet's response and its subsequent impact on his poetic output is a unique case study of the conflicting demands of art and politics in a time of great social change. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Milton A. Cohen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0817317139\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817317133\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/20\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.40w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2011","brand":"Milton A. Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46545655005439,"sku":"9780817317133","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_19f448ff-f485-44fa-85e1-f52e27c11399.jpg?v=1738183013","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beleaguered-poets-and-leftist-critics-milton-a-cohen-9780817317133","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}