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The Long Voyage - Selected Letters of Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1987 (Hardcover)
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The Long Voyage - Selected Letters of Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1987 (Hardcover)
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Critic, poet, editor, chronicler of the "lost generation," and
elder statesman of the Republic of Letters, Malcolm Cowley
(1898-1989) was an eloquent witness to much of twentieth-century
American literary and political life. These letters, the vast
majority previously unpublished, provide an indelible self-portrait
of Cowley and his time, and make possible a full appreciation of
his long and varied career. Perhaps no other writer aided the
careers of so many poets and novelists. Faulkner, Fitzgerald,
Hemingway, Kerouac, Tillie Olsen, and John Cheever are among the
many authors Cowley knew and whose work he supported. A poet
himself, Cowley enjoyed the company of writers and knew how to
encourage, entertain, and when necessary scold them. At the center
of his epistolary life were his friendships with Kenneth Burke,
Allen Tate, Conrad Aiken, and Edmund Wilson. By turns serious and
thoughtful, humorous and gossipy, Cowley's letters to these and
other correspondents display his keen literary judgment and ability
to navigate the world of publishing. The letters also illuminate
Cowley's reluctance to speak out against Stalin and the Moscow
Trials when he was on staff at The New Republic--and the
consequences of his agonized evasions. His radical past would
continue to haunt him into the Cold War era, as he became caught up
in the notorious "Lowell Affair" and was summoned to testify in the
Alger Hiss trials. Hans Bak supplies helpful notes and a preface
that assesses Cowley's career, and Robert Cowley contributes a
moving foreword about his father.
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