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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...

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The adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed "the lost generation", are brought to life in this book of prose works. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Crane, Hemingway, Wilder, Dos Passos, Cowley and ...

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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 vas...

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"e;A carefully understated but chilling account of the whole 3 1/2 centuries during which 15 million Africans were snatched from their homes and delivered into slavery in the New World."e; -TimeIn 1518, the Atlantic slave trade began with ...

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During the 1930 s, <b> </b>one of the liveliest decades in the history of the American mind, Malcolm Cowley was literary editor of the <i>New Republic</i>, <i> </i>the magazine that served more than any other as...

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