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Who is Witter Bynner? : a biography

Title
Who is Witter Bynner? : a biography / James Kraft.
Author
Kraft, James, 1935-
Publication
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1995]

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Description
125 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
Few readers today could respond the question, "Who is Witter Bynner?," but it is a question that can be variously and richly answered. As well known early in this century as his friends Carl Sandburg and Edna St. Vincent Millay, Bynner (1881-1968) was a poet, translator, essayist, playwright, and editor, and early supporter of A.E. Housman, O. Henry, Ezra Pound, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes. He wrote over twenty volumes of poetry, most of them published by Alfred A. Knopf, and was part of the new verse movement that centered around Poetry magazine. He and a friend created the major hoax in American literature, a body of poetry written to mock the intellectual pretensions of the time that they called Spectra.
Subject
  • Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968
  • Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968
  • Bynner, Witter
  • Lawrence, David H
  • 1900-1999
  • Poets, American > 20th century > Biography
  • Poets, American
  • Biografie
Genre/Form
  • collective biographies.
  • Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
  • 0826316263
  • 9780826316264
LCCN
94018764
OCLC
  • ocm31740734
  • 31740734
  • SCSB-9432033
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library