Pull of Politics

Milton A. Cohen is a Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas and the author of four books, including Beleaguered Poets and Leftist Critics: Stevens, Cummings, Frost, and Williams in the 1930s. He lives in Richardson, Texas.

These three writers are at last placed side by side, revealing how close their mindsets were, yet how different each was from the other. A significant contribution to American literary criticism."" - Earle Bryant, editor of Byline, Richard Wright: Articles from the Daily Worker and New Masses""Cohen does an admirable job of explicating how these authors responded to the rise of the Popular Front and other leftist movements: Steinbeck’s concern with homegrown fascism, Hemingway's involvement in Loyalist Spain, and Wright's belief that racism reflected fascist impulses."" - Gary Holcomb, co-editor of Hemingway and the Black Renaissance