Malcolm Cowley (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Hans Bak
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1898-1930
- Setting: Western Pennsylvania; Cambridge, Massachusetts; New York City; Paris and Montpellier, France; and rural Connecticut
- Principal Characters: Malcolm Cowley, Kenneth Burke, Peggy Baird, Allen Tate, Matthew Josephson
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Journalism or journalists, Literature, Poetry or poets, Criticism, Bohemianism
- Locales: New York, NY, Connecticut, Paris, France, Pennsylvania, Cambridge, MA, Montpellier, France
Malcolm Cowley was one of the key players in the many literary dramas of the early decades of the twentieth century—crucial years in the development of the modernism that became the century’s dominant literary philosophy. As poet, editor, and critic, Cowley was increasingly active in the literary activities and controversies that dominated the little magazines of the 1920’s and 1930’s. This first volume of Hans Bak’s projected two-part biography takes readers from Cowley’s birth in Pittsburgh in 1898 to the beginnings of the Depression in 1930, and does detailed justice to...
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