{"product_id":"the-tortured-life-of-scofield-thayer-paperback","title":"The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Dempsey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"For nearly a century, Scofield Thayer has remained a somewhat shadowy figure in the history of modernism. But James Dempsey has at last illuminated Thayer's passionate, intense, and agonizing story.\"--Barry Ahearn, editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Correspondence of William Carlos Williams and Louis Zukofsky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As no other book has done before, \u003ci\u003eThe Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer \u003c\/i\u003eplaces Thayer's contribution to modernism as editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Dial \u003c\/i\u003ein the context of his personal struggles to forge a new aesthetic and to understand his own psychology and the life of his times.\"--Michael Webster, author of \u003ci\u003eReading Visual Poetry after Futurism\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Regarded as a titanic artistic and aesthetic achievement, the influential literary magazine \u003ci\u003eThe Dial \u003c\/i\u003epublished most of the great modernist writers, artists, and critics of its day. As publisher and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Dial\u003c\/i\u003e from 1920 to 1926, Scofield Thayer was gatekeeper and guide for the movement. His editorial curation introduced the ideas of literary modernism to America and gave American artists a new audience in Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer\u003c\/i\u003e, James Dempsey looks beyond the public figure best known for publishing the work of William Butler Yeats, T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, E.E. Cummings, and Marianne Moore to reveal a paradoxical man fraught with indecisions and insatiable appetites, and deeply conflicted about the artistic movement to which he was benefactor and patron. Thayer suffered from schizophrenia and faded from public life upon his resignation from \u003ci\u003eThe Dial\u003c\/i\u003e. His struggle with mental illness and his controversial personal life led his guardians to prohibit anything of a personal nature from appearing in previous biographies. The story of Thayer's unmoored and peripatetic life, which in many ways mirrored the cosmopolitan rootlessness of modernism, has never been fully told until now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Dempsey\u003c\/b\u003e, instructor at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Court Poetry of Chaucer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZakary's Zombies\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMurphy's American Dream.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 25, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47468601934077,"sku":"9780813062358","price":47.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/UHBMTUo1OFJzYjdMbzljb2JQa3BaZz09.webp?v=1777290546","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/the-tortured-life-of-scofield-thayer-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}