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Kenneth Fearing

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Poet and novelist

United StatesWritersLived 1902 to 1961 · aged 58
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Kenneth Flexner Fearing was an American poet and novelist. A major poet of the Depression era, he addressed the shallowness and consumerism of American society as he saw it, often by ironically adapting the language of commerce and media.

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1939Guggenheim Fellowship
1936Guggenheim Fellowship

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Kenneth Flexner Fearing was an American poet and novelist. A major poet of the Depression era, he addressed the shallowness and consumerism of American society as he saw it, often by ironically adapting the language of commerce and media. Critics have associated him with the American Left to varying degrees; his poetry belongs to the American proletarian poetry movement, but is rarely overtly political. Fearing published six original collections of poetry between 1929 and 1956. He wrote his best-known poems during the late 1920s and 1930s.

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United States
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deceased
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Lived 1902 to 1961 · aged 58
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