A literary discovery of considerable magnitude, these 98 previously unpublished poems by John Dewey, written principally in the 191018 period, illuminate an emotive aspect in his intellectual life often not manifest in the prose works.Rumors of the existence of the poems have circulated among students of Dewey s life and writings since 1957, when Mrs. Roberta Dewey gained possession of them from the Columbia University Columbiana collection. But except for the few persons who saw copies made by the French scholar Deladelle five years after Dewey s death, the poems have remained inaccessible...
A literary discovery of considerable magnitude, these 98 previously unpublished poems by John Dewey, written principally in the 191018 period, illumin...