The Selected Letters of George Oppen (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: George Oppen
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Letters
- Time of Work: 1931-1934 and 1958-t981
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Letters
- Subjects: Ideology, Language or languages, Politics, Exile or expatriates, Literature, Poetry or poets
During the decades 1960-1990, the great modernist poets William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and Marianne Moore, Who had been shunted into temporary obscurity by the ascendancy of the academic NeW Critics, were gradually restored to a position of prominence. Yet another group, small but quite important, remained in obscurity. A generation younger than Williams and Pound, the Objectivists Louis Zukofsky, Charles Reznikoff, and George Oppen—joined in a loose association by Basil Bunting, Carl Rakosi, and Lorine Niedecker—were never able to command an audience even as limited as the...
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