Article delineates the fascination H. L. Mencken, influential social critic, journalist, and editor, had with Oklahoma-centered literature and poetry. Lawrence R. Rodgers discusses the works of several writers the critic openly supported. Many of these writers had an affiliation with the University of Oklahoma.
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Article delineates the fascination H. L. Mencken, influential social critic, journalist, and editor, had with Oklahoma-centered literature and poetry. Lawrence R. Rodgers discusses the works of several writers the critic openly supported. Many of these writers had an affiliation with the University of Oklahoma.
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Abstract: In the 1930s two popular novels, Cimarron and The Grapes of Wrath, came to be recognized as dominant literary portraits of the state. But nearly a decade earlier, national audiences had received an introduction to an "Oklahoma Style" of literature through the works of several writers of serious poetry. Lawrence Rodgers focuses on the young Oklahoma authors who received almost unprecedented promotion by the Sage of Baltimore, H. L. Mencken.
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The Chronicles of Oklahoma
The Chronicles of Oklahoma is the scholarly journal published by the Oklahoma Historical Society. It is a quarterly publication and was first published in 1921.
Quarterly publication containing articles, book reviews, photographs, illustrations, and other works documenting Oklahoma history and preservation. Index to volume 78 starts on page 514.