American critical essays, twentieth century / selected, with an introduction by Harold Beaver
1959, First Edition. London : Oxford University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #451657
Series; The World's classics ; 575. Physical description; xvi, 364 pages ; 16 cm. Contents; The hall-marks of American / H.L. Mencken -- What is literature, what is language, etc.? / E. Pound -- Theodore Dreiser / V. Brooks -- The sense of poetry : Shakespeare's "The phoenix and the turtle" / I.A. Richards -- The politics of Flaubert / E. Wilson -- Poet without critics : a note on Robinson Jeffers / H. Gregory -- Thomas Wolfe : the professional deformation / M. Cowley -- Emily Dickinson / A. Warren -- The man of letters in the modern world / A. Tate -- Maule's curse or Hawthorne and the problem of allegory / Y. Winters -- Willa Cather : the tone of time / M.D. Zabel -- Tradition and the individual talent / F.O. Matthiessen -- An adjunct to the muses' diadem : a note on E.P. / R.P. Blackmur -- William Faulkner / R.P. Warren -- Huckleberry Finn / L. Trilling -- What does poetry communicate? / C. Brooks -- Henry James : The American scene / W.H. Auden -- Paleface and redskin / P. Rahy -- Observations on the style of Ernest Hemingway / H. Levin -- The broken circuit : romance and the American novel / R. Chase -- Ishmael and Ahab / A. Kazin -- The book of the grotesque / I. Howe. Subjects; American literature History and criticism. Criticism United States.
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