Harvard Aesthetes Explained

The Harvard Aesthetes was a group of poets attending Harvard University in a period roughly between 1912 and 1919. It includes:

• Malcolm Cowley (1898–1989)
• E. E. Cummings (1894–1962)
• Arthur William Wilson - AKA Winslow Wilson. Pico Miran, Tex Wilson (1892-1974)
• S. Foster Damon (1893–1971)
• John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
• Robert Hillyer (1895–1961)
• John Brooks Wheelwright (1897–1940)

Sources

• Virginia Spencer Carr, Dos Passos : a life, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1984.
• Jonathan Freedman, Professions of taste : Henry James, British aestheticism and commodity culture, Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1990.