Harvard Aesthetes

The Harvard Aesthetes is a name given to a group of poets attending Harvard University in a period roughly between 1912 and 1919. It includes:

• Malcolm Cowley (1898–1989)
• E. E. Cummings (1894–1962)
• S. Foster Damon (1893–1971)
• John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
• Robert Hillyer (1895–1961)
• John Brooks Wheelwright (1897–1940)

Sources

• Virginia Spencer Carr, Dos Passos : a life, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1984. ISBN 9780385129640
• Jonathan Freedman, Professions of taste : Henry James, British aestheticism and commodity culture, Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1990. ISBN 9780804717847

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