The ''Harvard Aesthetes'' was a group of

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...

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in a period roughly between 1912 and 1919. It includes: *

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), his lyrical memoir, ''Exile's Return ...

(1898–1989) *

E. E. Cummings Edward Estlin Cummings, who was also known as E. E. Cummings, e. e. cummings and e e cummings (October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962), was an American poet, painter, essayist, author and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobi ...

(1894–1962) *Arthur William Wilson - AKA Winslow Wilson. Pico Miran, Tex Wilson (1892-1974) * S. Foster Damon (1893–1971) *

John Dos Passos John Roderigo Dos Passos (; January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist, most notable for his ''U.S.A.'' trilogy. Born in Chicago, Dos Passos graduated from Harvard College in 1916. He traveled widely as a young man, visit ...

(1896–1970) *

Robert Hillyer Robert Silliman Hillyer (June 3, 1895 – December 24, 1961) was an American poet and professor of English literature. He won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1934. Early life Hillyer was born in East Orange, New Jersey to an old Connecticut fam ...

(1895–1961) * John Brooks Wheelwright (1897–1940)

Sources

*Virginia Spencer Carr, ''Dos Passos : a life'', Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1984. *Jonathan Freedman, ''Professions of taste : Henry James, British aestheticism and commodity culture'', Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1990.

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