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The Insider, page 51
The Complete Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, Farrar, Straus and Young, 1947
The Portable Hawthorne, Viking Press, 1947
Black Cargoes: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1518–1865, cowritten with Daniel P. Mannix, Viking Press, 1962
A Many-Windowed House: Collected Essays on American Writing and American Writers, edited by Henry Dan Piper, Southern Illinois University Press, 1970
Unshaken Friend: A Profile of Maxwell Perkins, Roberts Rinehart, 1985
The Portable Malcolm Cowley, edited by Donald W. Faulkner, Viking Press, 1990
Further abbreviations used in endnotes:
AK—Alfred Kazin
AT—Allen Tate
Bak—Hans Bak, Malcolm Cowley: The Formative Years, University of Georgia Press, 1993
BS—Isaac Gewirtz, Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road, New York Public Library with Scala Publishers, 2007
HA—Harvard Advocate
HC—Hart Crane
HC/LOA—Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters, Library of America, 2006
EH—Ernest Hemingway
EW—Edmund Wilson
GM—Gorham Munson
JB—Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee, Jack’s Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac, St. Martin’s Press, 1978
JB/EH—Notes taken by James Brasch on the Hemingway–Cowley correspondence
JK—Jack Kerouac
KB—Kenneth Burke
KK—Ken Kesey
LATS—Matthew Josephson, Life Among the Surrealists: A Memoir, Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1962
LLP—Edmund Wilson, Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912–1972, edited by Elena Wilson, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977
LM—Larry McMurtry
MC—Malcolm Cowley
MCC—Diane U. Eisenberg, Malcolm Cowley: A Checklist of His Writings, 1916–1973, Southern Illinois University Press, 1975
MJ—Matthew Josephson
NL—Newberry Library, Malcolm Cowley papers
NYHT—New York Herald Tribune
NYJ—Alfred Kazin, New York Jew, Alfred A. Knopf, 1978
NYT—New York Times
NYTBR—New York Times Book Review
ONG—Alfred Kazin, On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1942
OTR—Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, 1957
OTRS—Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll, Viking Press, 2007
RC—Robert Cowley, interview with the author
RR—Susan Jenkins Brown, Robber Rocks: Letters and Memories of Hart Crane, 1923–1932, Wesleyan University Press, 1969
SOT—Alfred Kazin, Starting Out in the Thirties, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1965
TNR—The New Republic
TWIW—Harold Loeb, The Way It Was, Criterion Books, 1959
VEF—Viking editorial files
WF—William Faulkner
WOTL—Daniel Aaron, Writers on the Left: Episodes in American Literary Communism, Harcourt Brace and World, 1961
WW—Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947–1954, edited by Douglas Brinkley, Penguin Books, 2004
Notes
With certain exceptions these endnotes cite sources only for quoted material in the text of the book. Where the text proper provides all the necessary information to find the original source of the quoted material, there is no endnote. Page numbers are provided when available; many online sources do not provide them.
Introduction: The Cowley Era
Scribner’s editor Maxwell Perkins had declared: FCF, 100.
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review in Bookforum: Gerald Howard, “The Making of American Literature,” Bookforum, December/January 2014.
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a pioneering history: Black Cargoes: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1518–1865, coauthored with Daniel P. Mannix, Viking Press, 1962.
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“Oh, Mister Cowley”: Quoted by Alan D. Williams at MC’s memorial service, the Century Association, May 22, 1989.
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One. Boy in Sunlight
pastoral poem “Boy in Sunlight”: BJCP, 3–4.
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recall this moment: Quoted in Bak, 494.
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“the essential me”: “Looking for the Essential Me,” NYTBR, June 17, 1984.
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“the real beginning of the Midwest”: MC to Wallace Stegner, TLV, 660–61.
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“been to Paris”: DGM, xi.
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“whenever you crossed”: SOT, 19.
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exceptionally difficult birth: This description and much that follows about Cowley’s mother and father are taken from “Mother and Son,” American Heritage, February/March 1983.
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“prosperous, semi-suburban area”: MC to AK, TLV, 562.
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“strange, if harmless”: MC to AK, TLV, 562.
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“God-awfulest mining camp”: Letter to Denise Weber, undated but probably mid-1982.
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“thousands of acres”: Letter to Denise Weber.
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skill at reading: TLS, 144.
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“We started out”: William Cahill, “ ‘Always Keep Watching for Terms’: Visits with Kenneth Burke, 1989–1990,” KB Journal 7, no. 2 (Spring 2011), kbjournal.org/cahill.
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He remembers them: ERr, 16.
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model themselves on: ERr, 20.
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“a new world was being”: “Wowsers on the Run,” Brentano’s Book Chat, January/February 1927, 30–33.
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“rather slender diet”: Quoted in Bak.
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“greatest existing menace”: “Wowsers on the Run.”
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“Victorianism, transplanted to America”: AGT, 18.
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“The whole territory”: A Many-Windowed House, 117.
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a somber poem: Sewanee Review, Fall 1978, 653–55.
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Two. Scholarship Boy
with appalling candor: Samuel Eliot Morison, Three Centuries of Harvard, Harvard University Press, 1936, 423.
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“You don’t know”: MC to KB, SC, 33.
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“not defective specialists”: A. Lawrence Lowell, “Inaugural Address of the President of Harvard University,” Science, October 15, 1909, 499.
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“Cockpit of Learning”: Bliss Perry, And Gladly Teach: Reminiscences, Houghton Mifflin, 1935, 222.
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“a brilliant array”: Perry, And Gladly Teach, 243.
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As definitively documented: Jerome Karabel, The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005.
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anti-Semitism manifested itself: Quoted in Bak, 54.
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“ill-bred grinds”: Quoted in Bak, 55.
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“I hadn’t forgotten”: MC to Jacob Davis, TLV, 598.
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“in short, to be a man of letters”: MC interview with Miranda Cowley.
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Wendell put it: Henry May, The End of American Innocence: A Study of First Years of Our Time, 1912–1917, Alfred A. Knopf, 1959, 76.
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“seemed to us”: ERr, 28.
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“the clan includes”: NYT, May 7, 1916.
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“nursemaid of genius”: Harvard Advocate Anthology, edited by Donald Hall, Twayne Publishers, 1950, 13.
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“pacifists, or worse”: “Midsummer Medley,” TNR, August 15, 1934, 24.
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“The ‘Advocate’ is”: MC to KB, SC, 10.
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“Wherever the Advocate”: Hall, Harvard Advocate Anthology, 21–22.
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Cowley captures them: ERr, 35.
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the quality of “externality”: Amy Lowell, “The New Manner in Modern Poetry,” TNR, March 14, 1916, 124.
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moved the Advocate: “The Externalists,” HA, April 14, 1916.
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“nothing to say?”: Morison, Three Centuries of Harvard, 438.
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bragging to Burke: MC to KB, TLV, 8.
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“the warmth inside”: “Poem for Amy Lowell,” TNR, January 8, 1936, 258–59.
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to his diary: Alan Seeger, Letters and Diary of Alan Seeger, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1917, 163.
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speech in Philadelphia: Quoted in World War I and America, edited by A. Scott Berg, Library of America, 2017, 105.
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“worse than war”: Quoted in World War I and America, 109.
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“Germany, often called”: HA, May 14, 1917.
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“I was anxious”: “John Dos Passos: The Art of Fiction No. 44,” Paris Review, Spring 1969, 7.
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“Copey” presented him: MC to KB, SC, 35.
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his camion-driving duties: MC to KB, SC, 43.
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titled “On the Road with”: A. Piatt Andrew, History of the American Field Service, vol. 3, Houghton Mifflin, 1920, 72–77.
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Wolfe would remember: Letter dated October 30, 1968, to the American Academy, NL.
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“might almost say”: ERr, 38.
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“moments in France”: ERr, 42.
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even sold a piece: Pittsburgh Gazette Times, January 6, 1918.
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“sketches and poems”: Charles Fenton, “Ambulance Drivers in France and Italy: 1914–1918,” American Quarterly, Winter 1951, 339–40.
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“a real attack”: HA, January 1918, 240–42.
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an instant expert: MC to KB, TLV, 26–27.
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“I may find the old life”: MC to KB, SC, 55.
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“commanded by strangers”: ERr, 46.
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“seizing the vitality”: ONG, 191.
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Three. The Long Furlough
“a little frightened”: WT, 232–33, along with subsequent quotes re Aiken.
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clever literary hoax: The details and quotes that follow are taken from two sources: William Jay Smith, The Spectra Hoax, Wesleyan University Press, 1961; and Malcolm Cowley’s “The Real Earl Roppel,” New York Evening Post, July 7, 1920.
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group of poets: Witter Bynner, “The Spectric Poets,” TNR, November 11, 1916, 11.
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“the Long Furlough,” Cowley implied: ERr, 48.
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“a vast unconcern”: ERr, 49.
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the southern reaches: ERr, 47.
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espoused by The Saturday Evening Post: ERr, 61.
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“years from 1917”: Quoted in Adam Hochschild, American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis, Mariner Books, 2022, 132.
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“a real-life version”: John Loughery and Blythe Randolph, Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century, Simon & Schuster, 2020, 53.
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who regarded sex: Jim Forest, Love Is the Measure: A Biography of Dorothy Day, Paulist Press, 1986, 30.
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living in sin: Quoted in Bak, 125.
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“dreadful, dark hole”: MC interview with William Miller, August 5, 1976, Papers of William D. Miller, Marquette University, Raynor Library.
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“Try reviewing these”: MCC, xi.
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“big, red-faced Irishman”: MCC, xiii.
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“three good dinners”: MC address to the Signet Society, April 10, 1976.
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“I was paid ten dollars”: “A Weekend with Eugene O’Neill,” The Reporter, September 5, 1957, 33–36.
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a delirious state: Interview with MC, August 5, 1976, Papers of William D. Miller.
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“Some drizzly morning”: ERr, 50.
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infuses “Free Clinic”: “Free Clinic,” BJ, 41–43.
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“into sudden hysteria”: Quoted in Bak, 143.
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a letter to Jacob Davis: MC to Jacob Davis, TLV, 598–99.
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“I went through Harvard”: MC to AK, TLV, 562.
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from his beloved: J. Donald Adams, Copey of Harvard: A Biography of Charles Townsend Copeland, Houghton Mifflin, 1960, 266.
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The piece held: “The Woman of Thornden,” The Dial, February 1920, 259–62.
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the prose interludes: BJ, 33–34.
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poems as “Interment”: “Interment,” BJ, 45.
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“cast of mind”: WT, 56.
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Four. Lost and Found
Even fifty years ago: William Styron, “That Extraordinary Company of Writers Known Ironically as the Lost Generation,” NYTBR, May 6, 1973, 426.
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a French garage owner: James R. Mellow, Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company, Praeger Publishers, 1974, 273.
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