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...need of spit and brimstone in his long and varied career as iconoclast, professor, literary critic, and leftist. Back in 1934 he and Philip Rahv--a young Russian-Jewish emigre--launched Partisan Review. This leftist "little" magazine was to become the clarion voice for dissident American intellectuals and artists during the next two decades...
Such American authors as Elizabeth Bishop, John Dos Passos, Delmore Schwartz, Genevieve Taggard, James Agee and William Carlos Williams were published in the magazine, in addition to a variety of lesser lights. A key function of Partisan Review-- and, indeed, other "little" magazines of its ilk--was that of giving play to the unknown, struggling young writer. The magazine thus brought a panoply of young talent to the fore which might otherwise have gone unrecognized...
...Partisan Review editors eagerly--if briefly--embraced this new literary mode from 1934 to 1936, a total of nine issues. With avant-garde literature editors combined an adjoining interest in leftist politics; however, this marriage of art and politics was doomed to be both short-lived and turbulent, for it ultimately imposed unacceptable strictures upon the artist's and writer's creative freedom. As James T. Farrell,' author of the Studs Lonigan trilogy and a contributor to the magazine later said, the intellectuals' alliance with Stalinism amounted to an "artist straitjacket...