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...Harvard, they learned metrics together in poetry class and studied under the guidance of I.A. Richards. Fitzgerald read Agee's poetry then and disliked it--and they both had an intense interest in contemporary writers. This common interest eventually brought Fitzgerald and Agee together writing book reviews at Time magazine. It was here Fitzgerald says that they found their, strongest shared idea, one which became constant and in time inveterate: the precise relation between any given real situation or event and the versions of it presented in print. "And it was at Time that they came to a common agreement...
...ALTERNATIVES to journalism. Fitzgerald eventually chose poetry while Agee moved further away from it, unable to reconcile his strict metrics and heavily religious verse with the looseness of modern poetry. What Agee eventually chose was a kind of journalistic prose that expressed the two writers' central idea...
Aside from his portrait of the development of Agee's ideas, Fitzgerald also presents some of the most vivid of Agee's letters about his work and the dissolution of his first and second marriages. There is a desperate air about these letters, as if Agee were always living from one creative moment to the next, waiting for the necessary inspiration, but never working toward it. And his relationships seem to be so incomplete, so tied to his writing, that they have the same tormented reliance on inspiration: selflessness was in him but it did not come easily...
...describing these personal letters Fitzgerald comes closest to making that link between the reader and Agee, to capturing the spirit of the writer...
...writer friend recently sent one a copy of Let-Us Now Praise Famous Men saying, Now more than ever we need writing that celebrates man, his unpredictable spirit at its best." In Remembering James Agee there is occasionally and most often in Robert Fitzgerald's remembrance, that kind of celebration which we cannot do without...