Dempsey, James,  1948- <br/><br/>
The tortured life of Scofield Thayer /James Dempsey. 

 - Gainesville :  University Press of Florida,  (c)2014. 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>An intellectual sewer --  Homes of virtue --  Harvard --  Oxford during the war --  The Chicago Experiment --  Lady of the Sonnets --  Death of the prophet --  To the center of things --  Starting with a bang --  Manhattan love stories --  Anti-epithalamion --  To the great master --  Assessing the modern --  A millionaire in Red Vienna --  Teuton versus Francophile --  Barnes in eruption --  Feuds galore --  Annus Belli --  Freudless in Vienna --  Return of the prodigal --  The death of The Dial --  Thayer in eclipse --  Postmortem --  God, stars, and sea: Thayer's poetic legacy. 
<br/><br/> Scofield Thayer, as owner of The Dial during the 1920s, was the center of the flow of cultural ideas between the United States and Europe, particularly those of the various modernist movements. This is the first biography of Thayer. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813048727 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Thayer, Scofield, 1889-1982. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Poets, American--20th century--Biography.<br/>Authors and publishers--United States--20th century--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3539  / .T678 2014 PS3539