Dear editor: a history of Poetry in letters: the first fifty years, 1912-1962 / edited and compiled by Joseph Parisi and Stephen Young; introductions and commentary by Joseph Parisi; foreword by Billy Collins
2002, 1st Edition. New York: Norton. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #341682
ISBN: 0393050920
Physical description: xix, 473 pages: illustrations; 25 cm. Contents: Beginning again -- The view from Cass Street -- The view from Church Walk -- The editor and the impresario at odds -- Recognition and romance -- American modernism : William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and others -- Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, and "Amygisme" -- Poetry on the ascendant, Pound in decline -- Departures, 1916-1919 -- World War I and the aftermath -- Another new generation, 1918-1922 -- The twenties -- The depression years, 1930-1936 -- Passing the torch, 1936-1941 -- World War II -- Period of adjustments, 1944-1949 -- Karl Shapiro: 1950-1955 -- Henry Rago: the early years, 1955-1962. Subjects: Monroe, Harriet 1860-1936; Correspondence.
Shapiro, Karl 1913-2000; Correspondence.
Rago, Henry 1915-1969; Correspondence. Periodicals Publishing Illinois Chicago History 20th century. Literature publishing Illinois Chicago History 20th century. American poetry 20th century History and criticism.
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