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James Rufus Agee (/ ˈ eɪ dʒ iː / AY-jee; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, writing for Time , he was one of the most influential film critics in the United States.
Sure on this shining night, op.13 no.3 is an art song by composer Samuel Barber from his 1938 song cycle Four Songs.The work's text is taken from James Agee's poem "Descriptions of Elysium" which was published in his 1934 poetry collection Permit Me Voyage by the Yale Series of Younger Poets.
James Agee, Permit Me Voyage [11] W. H. Auden, Poems [11] Paul Engle, American Song [11] John A. Lomax, compiler, with Alan Lomax, American Ballads and Folk Songs [11] Edna St. Vincent Millay, Wine From These Grapes [11] George Oppen, Discrete Series; Ezra Pound: Eleven new Cantos: XXXI–XLI [11] Homage to Sextus Propertius, London [12] "Make ...
James Agee: Permit Me Voyage [20] 1934 34 Muriel Rukeyser: Theory of Flight [20] 1935 35 Edward Weismiller: The Deer Come Down [20] 1936 36 Margaret Haley: The Gardener Mind [20] 1937 37 Joy Davidman: Letter to a Comrade [20] 1938 38 Reuel Denney: The Connecticut River and Other Poems [20] 1939 39 Norman Rosten: Return Again, Traveler [20] 1940 ...
Walker Evans photograph of three sharecroppers, Frank Tengle, Bud Fields, and Floyd Burroughs, Alabama, summer 1936. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men grew out of an assignment that Agee and Evans accepted in 1936 to produce a Fortune article on the conditions among sharecropper families in the American South during the Great Depression.
Agee is a 1980 American documentary film [1] about the writer and film critic James Agee [2] directed and produced by Ross Spears. [3] It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature .
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His biography, James Agee: A Life, was a New York Times “Notable Book” for 1984. As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin, appeared in 1990. It won the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award and the ASCAP-Deems Taylor award; it was also a New York Times "Notable Book" for 1990. In 1994, he published Capone: The Man and the Era.