The Legacy of Kenneth Burke

by Herbert W. Simons

Book Overview

Capturing the lively modernist milieu of Kenneth Burke's early career in Greenwich Village, where Burke arrived in 1915 fresh from high school in Pittsburgh, this book discovers him as an intellectual apprentice conversing with "the moderns." Burke found himself in the midst of an avant-garde peopled by Malcolm Cowley, Marianne Moore, Jean Toomer, Katherine Anne Porter, William Carlos Williams, Allen Tate, Hart Crane, Alfred Stieglitz, and a host...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299118347
• ISBN13: 9780299118341
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"