Redskin versus Paleface Poets

In my last article for Just Beauty, “Where Do Poems Come From?”, I mentioned the distinction that the American critic, Philip Rahv, drew in the 1930s between writers he identified as either ‘palefaces’ or ‘redskins’. Henry James belonged to the former and Walt Whitman to the latter. It’s similar to the opposition of head and…

Redskin versus Paleface Poets