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Not very many people writing in 1916 would have been so bold as to link the disgraced Oscar Wilde, who had located himself so snugly within English society, to an “American Renaissance.” But in his late summer letter of that year to Joseph Kling, editor of the Pagan magazine, Hart Crane did precisely that.
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Munro, N. (2015). American Decadence and the Creation of a Queer Modernist Aesthetic. In: Hart Crane’s Queer Modernist Aesthetic. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137407764_2
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