Estranging Dawn: The Life and Works of William Vaughn Moody - Hardcover

Brown Ph.D., Professor Maurice F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809306182 ISBN 13: 9780809306183

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973

Synopsis

Poet and playwright, whose works enjoyed phenomenal success in the early 1900s, William Vaughn Moody’s literary reputation seems to have lived under the shadow of his time. In this big and important new work, based on a wealth of unpublished material, Maurice F. Brown brilliantly reassesses Moody’s life and mind and brings alive once more a talent which now seems curiously relevant to issues and commit­ments of the 1970s.

 

This major critical biography there­fore repairs the neglect Moody’s repu­tation has suffered since the 1930s and reestablishes him if not in the front rank certainly as an important modern American writer. By his thorough study of such primary sources as uncollected poems, articles, and manuscript drafts of published works, Mr. Brown has been able to correct numerous errors of fact and interpretation of Moody’s works and thus give new readings to them. In addition, Mr. Brown’s research into the letters, journals, and remi­niscences provides a fascinating chapter in the literary history of the period. Impeccably researched and extremely well written, this important biography should interest general readers as well as students of American literature.

About this title

About the Author:

Maurice F. Brown is Professor of Eng­lish at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan.

About this edition

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0809306182
• ISBN 13: 9780809306183
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352