Malcolm Cowley

Malcolm Cowley (August 24, 1898 – March 27, 1989) was an American writer, editor, historian, poet, and literary critic. His best known works include his first book of poetry, Blue Juniata (1929), and his memoir, Exile's Return (1934; rev. 1951), written as a chronicler and fellow traveller of the Lost Generation and an influential editor and talent scout at Viking Press.

Quotes

• Now the dark waters at the bow
  fold back, like earth against the plow;
  foam brightens like the dogwood now
     at home, in my own country.
  • "Four Songs: The Long Voyage", in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, vol. 53, no. 1 (October, 1938), p. 27
  • Quoted as an epigraph in John Gunther, Inside U.S.A (1947), front matter

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Malcolm Cowley on Wikipedia