Dear editor : a history of Poetry in letters : the first fifty years, 1912-1962

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Title:

Dear editor : a history of Poetry in letters : the first fifty years, 1912-1962

Author:

Parisi, Joseph, 1944-

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York : W.W. Norton, [2002]

Physical Description:

xix, 473 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

General Note:

Includes index.

Language:

English

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.

Personal Subject:

Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936-Correspondence.

Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936.

Shapiro, Karl, 1913-2000-Correspondence.

Rago, Henry, 1915-1969-Correspondence.

Title Subject:

Poetry (Chicago, Ill.)

Subject Term:

Periodicals -- Publishing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.

Literature publishing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.

American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

Editors -- United States -- Correspondence.