Hart Crane and Allen Tate : : Janus-Faced Modernism / / Langdon Hammer.

Focusing on the vexed friendship between Hart Crane and Allen Tate, this book examines twentieth-century American poetry's progress toward institutional sanction and professional organization, a process in which sexual identities, poetic traditions, and literary occupations were in question and...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
©1993
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 5176
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • I. Janus-Faced Modernism
  • One. Toward the Institute of Literary Autonomy and Tradition
  • II. Tate: The Right Kind of Modernism
  • Two. The Realism of The Waste Land
  • Three. Genius and the Rational Order of Criticism
  • Four. The Burial of the Confederate Dead
  • Coda. "Mrs. Tate's" Tombstone
  • III. Crane: Modernism in Reverse
  • Five. A Resurrection of Some Kind
  • Six. Dice of Drowned Men's Bones
  • Seven. The Floating Singer of The Bridge
  • Coda. Unanswered Questions
  • IV. Beyond Modernism
  • Eight. Robert Lowell's Breakdown
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index