The Long Voyage : : Selected Letters of Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1987 / / Malcolm Cowley; ed. by Hans Bak.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Cowley, Malcolm,
• HerausgeberIn: Bak, Hans,
• MitwirkendeR: Cowley, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (848 p.)

Critic, poet, editor, chronicler of the Lost Generation, elder statesman of the Republic of Letters, Malcolm Cowley (1898­-1989) was an eloquent witness to American literary and political life. His letters, mostly unpublished, provide a self-portrait of Cowley and his time and make possible a full appreciation of his long, varied career.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: Beyond the Dry Season -- Editor’s Preface -- Abbreviations -- I. Harvard, World War I, Greenwich Village, 1915–1921 -- II. Pilgrimage to Holy Land—France, 1921–1923 -- III. The City of Anger—New York, 1923–1929 -- IV. The Depression Years—Literature and Politics, 1930–1940 -- V. The War Years, 1940–1944 -- VI. The Mellon Years, 1944–1949 -- VII. Literature and Politics in Cold War America, 1949–1954 -- VIII. Worker at the Writer’s Trade, 1954–1960 -- IX. The Sixties -- X. Man of Letters, 1970–1987 -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index