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Van Dyke, Michael. "Poetry's Revival: Kenneth Rexroth and the San Francisco Renaissance," American Studies Department, Michigan State University, May 1999.
This dissertation examines the intellectual influence of Kenneth Rexroth on the post-World War II San Francisco literary renaissance. Rexroth saw poetry, and especially the poetry reading, as the conduit of humane values in a culture gone awry. As an avant-gardist and leftist, he worked from the early 1930s to create an artistic and literary community in San Francisco that could act as an alternative cultural model to the dominant society. The beat movement represented the last hope for this vision, but did not fully embody his hopes. Though Rexroth was an important poet, this dissertation draws primarily from his essays, from which his cultural vision can be most directly gleaned.
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