Beleaguered Poets and Leftist Critics: Stevens, Cummings, Frost, and Williams in the 1930s

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. “Leftward Ho!”: Migrations of Writers, Critics, and Magazines in the 1930s 9 2. Wallace Stevens: No More Arpeggios 48 3. E. E. Cummings: Prolonged Adolescent or Premature Curmudgeon? 82 4. Robert Frost:A Lone Striker 114 5. William Carlos Williams: Proletarian versus Marxist 148 Conclusion 193 Notes 219 Index 255 ...