Ebook: The tortured life of Scofield Thayer

Scofield Thayer, as owner of The Dial during the 1920s, was the center of the flow of cultural ideas between the United States and Europe, particularly those of the various modernist movements. This is the first biography of Thayer.;An intellectual sewer -- Homes of virtue -- Harvard -- Oxford during the war -- The Chicago Experiment -- Lady of the Sonnets -- Death of the prophet -- To the center of things -- Starting with a bang -- Manhattan love stories -- Anti-epithalamion -- To the great master -- Assessing the modern -- A millionaire in Red Vienna -- Teuton versus Francophile -- Barnes in eruption -- Feuds galore -- Annus Belli -- Freudless in Vienna -- Return of the prodigal -- The death of The Dial -- Thayer in eclipse -- Postmortem -- God, stars, and sea: Thayer's poetic legacy.