TY - BOOK ID - 77888128 TI - Counter-revolution of the word : the conservative attack on modern poetry, 1945-1960 PY - 2008 SN - 1469606631 9781469606637 9780807831625 080783162X 9798890882134 PB - Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, DB - UniCat KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - American poetry KW - Conservatism and literature KW - Politics and literature KW - Literature and conservatism KW - Literature KW - History and criticism. KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77888128 AB - During the Cold War an unlikely coalition of poets, editors, and politicians converged in an attempt to discredit--if not destroy--the American modernist avant-garde. Ideologically diverse yet willing to bespeak their hatred of modern poetry through the rhetoric of anticommunism, these ""anticommunist antimodernists,"" as Alan Filreis dubs them, joined associations such as the League for Sanity in Poetry to decry the modernist ""conspiracy"" against form and language. In Counter-revolution of the Word Filreis narrates the story of this movement and assesses its effect on American poetry ER -