Harvard Aesthetes

American poet

The Harvard Aesthetes was a group of poets attending Harvard University in a period roughly between 1912 and 1919. It includes:

  • Malcolm Cowley (1898–1989)
  • E. E. Cummings (1894–1962)
  • Arthur William Wilson - AKA Winslow Wilson. Pico Miran, Tex Wilson (1892-1974)
  • S. Foster Damon (1893–1971)
  • John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
  • Robert Hillyer (1895–1961)
  • John Brooks Wheelwright (1897–1940)

Sources

  • Virginia Spencer Carr, Dos Passos : a life, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1984. ISBN 978-0-385-12964-0
  • Jonathan Freedman, Professions of taste : Henry James, British aestheticism and commodity culture, Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1990. ISBN 978-0-8047-1784-7
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