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By Alan Filreis

through the chilly battle an not likely coalition of poets, editors, and politicians converged in an try and discredit--if now not destroy--the American modernist avant-garde. Ideologically different but keen to bespeak their hatred of recent poetry during the rhetoric of anticommunism, those "anticommunist antimodernists," as Alan Filreis dubs them, joined institutions comparable to the League for Sanity in Poetry to decry the modernist "conspiracy" opposed to shape and language. In Counter-revolution of the Word Filreis narrates the tale of this move and assesses its impression on American poetry and poetics.

Although the antimodernists expressed their disapproval via ideological language, their hatred of experimental poetry was once finally now not political yet aesthetic, Filreis argues. by way of studying correspondence, interpreting pseudonyms, drawing new connections during the documents, and engaging in interviews, Filreis indicates that an off-the-cuff community of antimodernists was once potent in suppressing or distorting the postwar careers of many poets whose paintings had seemed frequently within the Nineteen Thirties. Insofar as modernism had consorted with radicalism within the crimson Decade, antimodernists within the Nineteen Fifties labored to sever these connections, fantasized a proper and unpolitical pre-Depression excessive sleek second, and assiduously sought to de-radicalize the remnant avant-garde. Filreis's research offers new perception into why experimental poetry has aroused such worry and alarm between American conservatives.

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