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Malcolm Cowley and the dream of the American canon By Vince Passaro Discussed in this essay: The Insider: Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature, by Gerald Howard. Penguin Press. 544 pages. $35. A s a writer I am, I suspect, at the worst stage of life— older, senti- mental, self-pitying, just awful—to be reading a vivid history of the twentieth-century writers who pro- duced the most influential work of my youth, which is to say, the writing that began to emerge after the First World War and that shaped American literary sensibilities until the late Seventies or early Eighties. …
摘自《哈泼斯杂志》(Harper's Magazine)第352卷 第2108期 · 2026年1月刊,Vince Passaro。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。