Hartmann, Sadakichi - Kenneth Rexroth (essay date 1971)
Kenneth Rexroth (essay date 1971)
SOURCE: A foreword to White Chrysanthemums: Literary Fragments and Pronouncements, by Sadakichi Hartmann, edited by George Knox and Harry Lawton, Herder and Herder, 1971, pp. vii-xi.
[In the following essay, Rexroth discusses Hartmann's stature among American intellectuals.]
Hardly a man is left alive who remembers those famous days and years when New York too had a belle époque, the years from the turn of the century to the United States' entry into the First War—Who remembers the magazine Mlle. New York, the Armory Show, parties at Bob Chanler's studio, or at Willy Pogany's, where the rich bloods went to meet artists' models and where Stanford White met Evelyn Nesbit, anarchist dances at Webster Hall, the early days of the Provincetown Theater with red-haired Fitzie holding the thing together and Eugene O'Neill making drunken rumpuses, the Lawrence and Passaic strikes, Mabel Dodge's...
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