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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents -- Foreword: Beyond the Dry Season -- Robert Cowley -- Editor�s Preface -- Abbreviations -- I. Harvard, World War I, Greenwich Village, 1915-1921 -- Harvard, 1915� 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 Writer�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

In English.

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 His letters, mostly unpublished, provide a self-portrait of Cowley and his time and make possible a full appreciation of his long, varied career.

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