Obsessive Images: Symbolism in Poetry of the 1930s and 1940s

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Obsessive Images was first published in 1960. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. As Mark Schorer comments, this is "the last, unfinished work of a distinguished, well loved critic, poet, and pro

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Joseph Warren Beach was for many years a professor of English at the University of Minnesota. He died in 1957. He wrote in many fields and was particularly distinguished for his criticism of the novel, his poetry, and his poetry criticism. Among his books are The Making of the Auden Cannon, Beginning with Plato (a volume of poems), The Twentieth-Century Novel, and American Fiction 1920-1940.