Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-1960

by Alan Filreis

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During the Cold War an unlikely coalition of poets, editors, and politicians converged in an attempt to discredit--if not destroy--the American modernist avant-garde. Ideologically diverse yet willing to bespeak their hatred of modern poetry through the rhetoric of anticommunism, these "anticommunist antimodernists," as Alan Filreis dubs them, joined associations such as the League for Sanity in Poetry to decry the modernist "conspiracy" against form...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1469614669

ISBN13:9781469614663

Release Date:March 2014

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:448 Pages

Weight:1.51 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Poetry

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