[lbo-talk] George Carlin

C. G. Estabrook galliher at uiuc.edu
Mon Jun 23 17:56:33 PDT 2008


Carrol Cox wrote:
> ... I don't think one can read Yeats, any more than Pound or Eliot, without
> allowing for that rage for community that in many intellectuals found
> expression in sympathy with if not full adherence to one fascist movement or
> another. W.C. Williams may have been the only one of the 'great moderns' to
> be wholly free of this tendency...

Some other candidates (some perhaps too young to be Modernists if yet moderns):

W. H. Auden

Samuel Beckett

Kay Boyle

E. E. Cummings

John Dos Passos

Ralph Ellison

Ernest Hemingway

Hugh MacDiarmid

Charles Olson

Kenneth Rexroth...

--CGE



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