| Description |
x, 389 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Marlowe's damnations -- Thomas Nashe and The unfortunate traveller -- Shakespeare at thirty -- Notes on Macbeth 00 Shakespeare's last word: Justice and redemption ; Freedom of the poet -- 2. Development of Anne Frank -- Conrad's journey -- Mind of Isaac Babel -- Monk and its author -- Freedom of the Don: Slapstick and the supernatural ; Sancho's proverbs -- 3. World of Henry James -- Stephen Crane: Red badge of courage ; Open boat -- Enslavement: three American cases: Theodore Dreiser ; Dreiser's "The titan" ; F. Scott Fitzgerald ; Case of Ring Lardner -- Hemingway's "A clean, well-lighted place" -- A note on Augie -- 4. "Song of myself": intention and substance -- Hardy and his thrush -- Ritual of W.B. Yeats -- Poetry of Ezra Pound -- Prufrock's dilemma -- Sorrows of Captain Carpenter -- Dylan Thomas: The loud hill of Wales -- Robert Lowell and others -- Poetry chronicle, 1948: waiting for the end, boys -- From the middle and senior generations -- Despondency and madness: on Lowell's "Skunk hour" -- One answer to a question: changes -- 5. Thursday out -- Lovers -- All their colours exiled -- Imaginary Jew -- Wash far away. |
| Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| ISBN |
0374158487 |
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9780374158484 |
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