| Description |
xvi, 364 pages ; 16 cm. |
| Series |
The World's classics, 575
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World's classics ; 575.
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| Bibliography |
Bibliographical footnotes. |
| Contents |
The hall-marks of American, by H.L. Mencken.--What is literature, what is language, etc.?? by E. Pound.--Theodore Dreiser, by V. Brooks.--The sense of poetry: Shakespeare's "The phoenix and the turtle," by I.A. Richards.--The politics of Flaubert, by E. Wilson.--Poet without critics: a note on Robinson Jeffers, by H. Gregory.--Thomas Wolfe: the professional deformation, by M. Cowley.--Emily Dickinson, by A. Warren.--The man of letters in the modern world, by A. Tate.--Maule's curse or Hawthorne and the problem of allegory, by Y. Winters.--Willa Cather: the tone of time, by M.D. Zabel.--Tradition and the individual talent, by F.O. Matthiessen.--An adjunct to the muses' diadem: a note on E.P., by R.P. Blackmur.--William Faulkner, by R.P. Warren.--Huckleberry Finn, by L. Trilling.--What does poetry communicate? by C. Brooks.--Henry James: The American scene, by W.H. Auden.--Paleface and redskin, by P. Rahy.--Observations on the style of Ernest Hemingway, by H. Levin.--The broken circuit: romance and the American novel, by R. Chase.--Ishmael and Ahab, by A. Kazin.--The book of the grotesque, by I. Howe. |
| Subject |
American literature.
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American literature. |
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American essays -- 20th century.
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American essays. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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