An edited collection of over 250 letters exchanged between Cleanth Brooks and Allen Tate between 1933 and 1976. The text sheds light on their friendships with writers such as T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner and Robert Lowell and the role they played in developing the literature of modernism.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Essential Correspondence of Two Southern Agrarian Icons. Step behind the scenes of twentieth-century American literary criticism with this comprehensive epistolary collection published by the University of Missouri Press. Spanning over four decades of intimate, intellectually rigorous correspondence between pioneer New Critic Cleanth Brooks and celebrated poet-critic Allen Tate, this volume charts the evolution of modern literary theory, Southern Agrarianism, the founding of The Southern Review, and the shifting landscapes of American academia. Edited with detailed annotations and historical introduction by Alphonse Vinh, these letters offer an indispensable primary-source record of two foundational figures in modern letters. Literary & Academic Significance: An essential primary document for scholars of 20th-century American literature, New Criticism, Southern literary history, and modern poetry. Bibliographic Detail: First Edition / First Printing (1998). Published by University of Missouri Press. Hardcover format with original dust jacket. Includes frontispiece photograph and extensive scholarly index. ISBN-10: 0826212077 / ISBN-13: 9780826212078. Condition Report: Dust Jacket: Present with light surface rubbing and minor edge shelf wear. Colors and typography remain clean, sharp, and fully legible. Binding & Boards: Hardcover cloth boards are square, rigid, and tightly bound. Outer corners and extremities are lightly rubbed from standard shelving. Interior & Text Block: The interior text block is exceptionally clean, bright, and completely unmarked?entirely free of student marginalia, underlining, or former owner signatures. Binding remains square and firm throughout. An authentic, clean-texted working copy of a vital literary correspondence archive. Seller Inventory # VV938
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