Exile's Return: A Narrative of Ideas
The central and most accessible account of Cowley's Lost Generation experience and literary formation.
Author guide
Malcolm Cowley was an American poet, literary critic, editor, memoirist, and literary historian. A chronicler of the Lost Generation, he worked at The New Republic and later as an editorial adviser at Viking Press, where he helped revive the reputations of William Faulkner and other American writers. His books combine literary history, cultural criticism, memoir, poetry, and correspondence.
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The central and most accessible account of Cowley's Lost Generation experience and literary formation.
A mature, engaging work on the lives and careers of the Lost Generation writers.
A broad retrospective memoir of Cowley's career as critic, editor, and literary intermediary.
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publisher-series · completed
A New Directions poetry series in which The Dry Season appeared as volume 1941, number 12.
Book 12 · poetry · 1941
Outside the series
memoir · 1934
literary-criticism · 1937
biography · 1945
literary-criticism · 1946
literary-criticism · 1954
literary-criticism · 1958
history · 1962
literary-history · 1966
literary-history · 1967
literary-history · 1973
memoir · 1978
memoir · 1980
memoir · 1980
biography · 1986
essays · 1970