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Gorham Bert Munson
1896–1969
A lively voice in American modernism, this critic and editor helped shape the little-magazine world of the 1920s. He is best remembered for founding Secession and championing new writing in the company of figures like Hart Crane, Kenneth Burke, and Waldo Frank.
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Robert Frost : A study in sensibility and good sense
by Gorham Bert Munson
About the author
Born in Amityville, New York, in 1896, he studied at Wesleyan University and went on to become an American literary critic, editor, and journalist. He moved in the Greenwich Village avant-garde and built a reputation as an energetic participant in the literary debates of his day.
In 1922 he founded Secession, a short-lived but influential little magazine that published and supported emerging modernist writers. The magazine's circle included contributors such as Hart Crane, E. E. Cummings, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams, and it helped give younger experimental writers a place to be heard.
Beyond Secession, he wrote books and criticism and contributed journalism to publications including The Atlantic Monthly, The Yale Review, Saturday Review, and Commonweal. Later archival records also note his involvement with the American Social Credit movement, showing how wide his interests ranged beyond literary culture alone.