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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majority previously unpublished, provide an indelible self-portrait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.
This timeless cycle of short stories lays bare the life of a small town in the American Midwest. The central character is George Willard, a young reporter on the Winesburg Eagle to whom, one by one, the town's inhabitants confide their hopes, their dreams, and their fears. The town of friendly but solitary people comes to life as Anderson's special talent exposes the emotional undercurrents that bind its people together.
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Leaves of Grass (Paperback, Reissue)
Walt Whitman; Edited by Malcolm Cowley; Introduction by Malcolm Cowley
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As Malcolm Cowley says in his introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass 'might be called the buried masterpiece of American writing', for it exhibits 'Whitman at his best, Whitman at his freshest in vision and boldest in language, Whitman transformed by a new experience.' Mr Cowley has taken the first edition from its narrow circulation among scholars, faithfully edited it, added his own introduction and Whitman's original introduction (which never appeared in any other edition during Whitman's life), and returned it to the common readership to whom the great poet really speaks.
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Yesterday's Burdens (Paperback)
Robert M. Coates; Introduction by Mathilde Roza; Afterword by Malcolm Cowley
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Grim account by a former slave ship captain describes the apalling
machinery of the commercial slave trade, including the harems and
"factories" maintained by slavers, treatment and discipline of
black Africans on slave ships, the suppression of slave revolts at
sea, and much more. Republication of the classic 1854
edition.
Grim account by a former slave ship captain describes the apalling
machinery of the commercial slave trade, including the harems and
"factories" maintained by slavers, treatment and discipline of
black Africans on slave ships, the suppression of slave revolts at
sea, and much more. Republication of the classic 1854
edition.
Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dos Passos, and their Lost Generation confrères are memorably brought to life in Cowley’s classic memoir.
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