Rahv
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Because Saul Bellow and the influential Philip Rahv had both dismissed “The Breast,” the plan was to rebuff and rebut his critics in a significant literary venue.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2021
Reviewing the novel a quarter century after diagnosing America’s literary bipolarity in “Paleface and Redskin,” Philip Rahv saluted its “masterful combination”—the demotic and literary, the astringent and poetic.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 11, 2019
Many of the critics who reviewed it—Irving Howe, Philip Rahv, Stanley Edgar Hyman, Richard Ellmann, Richard Poirier—knew Bellow personally and knew all about the divorce.
From The New Yorker ● May 4, 2015
While studying Dante and Shakespeare at the Indiana University School of Letters in the summer of 1952, he struck up an acquaintance with Philip Rahv, the editor of Partisan Review, who encouraged his critical ambitions.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2012
Edited with an introd. & comments by Philip Rahv.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1971 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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