Alice Corbin — a remark

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“No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter.”

Rejecting the idea that poetry should ever be enlisted to justify war and empire · Essay (as commonly attributed)

About Alice Corbin

Alice Corbin

16 April 1881–18 July 1949

Alice Corbin Henderson, born Alice Corbin on 16 April 1881 in St. Louis, Missouri, and dead on 18 July 1949 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, occupies an important if still insufficiently celebrated place in American literary history. She was a poet of lyrical concentration, an editor whose judgment helped define a…

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