A literary decade cannot be minimized when it encompasses such
writers as Mencken, Boyd, Nathan Gertrude Stein, Ford Madox Ford,
Edmund Wilson, Stuart Sherman, Joseph Krutch in the field of
criticism; Sinclair Lewis, Dos Passos, Glenway Wescott, Zona Gale??
(the only one who confessedly loved her middle west), Sherwood
Anderson, Floyd Deil, Hemingway, Scott Fitzerald, Willa Cather, in
the field of fiction; Ezra Pound, EE Cummings, T.??S. Eliot
Marianne Moore, Walter Stevens, William Carlos Williams (though
recognition ??came much later), Conrad Alken, Hart Crane in the
field of poetry; Elmer Rice, Eugene O'Neill in drama; and a varied
group in biography, history, science, with such giants as Einstein
Whitehead, Dewey, Sandburg. Hoffman shows how post-war
disillusionment with the Old Gang, the surge of enthusiasm for Marx
and bohemianism, the reaching out for freedom across the sea, the
rebellion against Puritanism, the preoccupation with death were
symptoms rather than basic ideas. The cultural influences were
immensely important; experimentation and imagination were evident
in all fields; the greatest fault of the era was neither its
vulgarity nor its immorality, but its naivete. He charts the
positive values, indicates the parallels with this postwar decade,
and defines the Twenties as "a melange of contrivance, experiment,
pastiche and revolt". (Kirkus Reviews)
A sharp portrait of this turbulent decade in American life and
letters, Frederick J. Hoffman's The Twenties is can't missing
reading. A first-rate discussion of an exciting era and of the
writers who found new forms in which to re-create their times, The
Twenties is a remarkable collection from Frederick J. Hoffman.
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