ID: 8788  -  Gigliola Sacerdoti Mariani  -  Firenze
Type: Text
   Rock and Shell
Format:
Medium: LetterExtent: 1 p.
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Title: [Rock and Shell]Subtitle:
Alternative:
Agents:
Creator: Wheelwright, John
Role: Name:
Created: 1933
Date: in/on:
Language: English
Rights: William L. Rukeyser (Davis, California)
Relation: IsPartOfQualifier: Berg Collection, N. Y. Public Library
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Description: Typed letter
Subjects: Identity
Subjects: Identity
Subjects: Identity
Subjects: Cultural Practices
Subjects: Cultural Practices
Subjects: Wo/Men
Subjects: Wo/Men
Subjects: Wo/Men
Subjects: Wo/Men
Keywords: poetry
Keywords: rebel
Keywords: revolutionary
Keywords: literary criticism
Keywords: reviews
Keywords: Cowley, Malcolm
Keywords: Gregory, Horace
Keywords: Rukeyser, Muriel
Keywords: Wheelwright, John
Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, poetry)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, rebel)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, revolutionary)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Cultural Practices, literary criticism)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Cultural Practices, reviews)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Cowley, Malcolm)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Gregory, Horace)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Rukeyser, Muriel)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Wheelwright, John)
Comment: This letter, undated, was certainly written in 1933, when Rock and Shell was issued. Against all the odds, it was reviewed favorably in numerous publications. Horace Gregory called Wheelwright “one of the few matured poets in our time”, characterizing the book as “an epilogue to the tradition of New England culture”; Rukeyser wrote in the New Masses that the book “outlines the development of a poet passing from religious preoccupation to activity in the revolutionary movement” (120).