162:, whose intellectual depth and historic sense Rahv continued to admire, Eliot's increasingly reactionary politics and traditional religiosity notwithstanding. Because Rahv believed the creative contradictions within a writer are the greatest measure of his achievement, he welcomed the opportunity to reconcile Eliot's conservative views with revolutionary ones that his writing also contained.
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in the late 1930s. His influence continued through the 1940s with his writings on a wide range of
European and American authors, most notably Henry James, whose reputation he contributed to reviving. With the rightward turn of politics in the 1950s, however, he retreated from his earlier literary and
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to effectuate such syntheses; the value of cosmopolitanism to promote a broad understanding of the world and the leading ideas of the writer's times; the rejection of parochial ideas based on region, nation, or ethnicity. In one of his most often quoted essays, "Paleface and
Redskin," he identified
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Kadish, "A Young
Communist in Love: Philip Rahv, Partisan Review, and My Mother." The Georgia Review 68, 4 (2014): 768–817. Kadish's information is based on letters Rahv sent to Ethel Richman from 1928 to 1931. They reside at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas,
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Dvosin, Andrew J. Literature in a
Political World: The Career and Writings of Philip Rahv. Ph.D. Dissertation, NYU, 1977. Dvosin drew his information by interviewing Rahv's first wife Nathalie Rahv on November 19, 1975 and his brother Selig Greenberg on November 20,
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Hindus, Milton. "Philip Rahv, The Critic." Images and Ideas in
American Culture, The Function of Criticism. Essays in Honor of Philip Rahv. ed. Arthur Edelstein. University Press of New England, 1979. 171–203.
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An Open Letter to Young
Writers. Rebel Poet, 16, September 1932. He still used Greenberg, however, when he married his first wife Naomi Wainger in 1934: New York Marriage Certificate Index 1866-1937.
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Lelchuk, Alan. "The Last Years."Images and Ideas in
American Culture, The Function of Criticism. Essays in Honor of Philip Rahv. ed. Arthur Edelstein. University Press of New England, 1979. 205-19.
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