Description |
xiii, 303 pages ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Writing well is the best revenge -- That Shakespearian rag -- Burke's great melody -- Responding to Blake -- Wordsworth's "Resolution and independence" -- Byron in his letters -- My Bront︠ problem, and yours? -- Reading Hawthorne -- Nineteenth-century American poetry -- Talking back to Emily Dickinson -- Matthew Arnolds' permanence -- What to do with Carlyle? -- Henry James on tour -- Yeats's first fifty years -- T.S. Eliot: a revaluation -- Fabulous monster: Ford Madox |
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Ford as literary critic -- R.P. Blackmur's last song -- Anthony Powell's serious comedy -- Appreciating Kingsley Amis -- Naipaul's written world -- Looking back at Lessing -- Mailer in retrospect -- Terry Southern: R.I.P. -- Robert Penn Warren's late poems -- Donald Hall's poetry -- Donald Davie as critic of modern poets -- The last man of letters: Julian Symons. |
Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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ISBN |
1558491384 alkaline paper |
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