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xiii, 441 pages : 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
What are critics good for? / Carlos Baker -- American literature comes of age / Joseph Wood Krutch -- Each age picks its literary greats / Jacques Barzun -- Deep readers of the world, beware / Saul Bellow -- Fiction's place in a world awry / Elizabeth Janeway -- Is there no more need to experiment? / Stephen Spender -- The "new novel" in France / Claude Mauriac -- What's the matter with poetry? / Karl Shapiro -- New singers and songs / M.L. Rosenthal -- Emerson in an existential age / Alexander Cowie -- With a voice as big as America / Waldo Frank -- His nightmares go on for evermore / Joseph Wood Krutch -- One man's communion with his world / Alfred Kazin -- The voice America understood / G. Stuart Demarest -- Yarn-spinner in the American vein / Wallace Stegner -- Howells : for fifty years a literary dynamo / Henry Commager -- The enduring fame of Henry James / Leon Edel -- Madame Bovary : a revolution in letters. --but unhappy Emma still exists / Harry Levin ; The translator, too, must search for le mot juste / Francis Steegmuller -- Chekov : a writer who refused to pretend / Frank O'Connor -- To the world of English, he counseled perfection / Eric Partridge -- The time and place of T.S. Eliot / Walter Allen -- Frost spoke the language of the ordinary man / Lawrance Thompson -- A classic of the American experience / Arthur Mizener -- Was "Papa" truly a great writer? / Maxwell Geismar -- Prejudices according to Mencken / Julian F. Boyd -- Albert Camus : an essay in appreciation / Germaine Brée -- John Steinbeck and his world / Arthur Mizener -- Boily boy and bard / William T. Moynihan -- William Faulkner, 1897-1962. A talent of wild abundance / Irving Howe ; The books he loved best / Joseph Blotner -- As much of the truth as one can bear / James Baldwin -- In writing nothing fails like success / V.S. Pritchett -- There's a tyrant in the critic's corner / Angus Wilson -- Rx for a story worth telling / Elizabeth Bowen -- Facts that put fancy to flight / Saul Bellow -- The world and they that dwell therein / Walter Teller -- Landscape with literary figures / Lawrence Durrell -- Mostly it's money that makes a writer go, go, go / Robert Graves -- Why does trash stick in our minds? / Al Hine -- The meaning of place / Sean O'Faolain -- A bubbling in the author's mind / C.S. Lewis -- What we need is savage laughter / Kingsley Amis -- Literary London : a tight little isle / Stephen Spender -- This England that its writers know / Carlos Baker -- Books weren't in my baggage / Lawrence Clark Powell -- How a story was born and how, bit by bit, it grew / Robert Penn Warren -- A novelist in search of plots that thicken / Alec Waugh -- The discovery of what it means to be an American / James Baldwin -- The author was a haunted man / MacKinlay Kantor -- Margaret Mitchell was a bridge partner / Lois Dwight Cole -- The art of leading a double life / Aileen Pippett -- My life and nine-year captivity with Sinclair Lewis / Mark Schorer -- It's easy to get Americans all wrong / Pamela Hansford Johnson -- Writing history is nervous work / Cecil Woodham-Smith -- Where does a young writer find his real friends? / John Knowles -- The telling of a nation's story / Allan Nevins -- It's history but is it literature? / George F. Kennan -- Our past isn't what it used to be / C. Vann Woodward -- A conflict that was big with fate / Allan Nevins -- Roundup time on the western range / Hal Bridges -- How should you tell a man's story? / John A. Garraty -- The one may say this was the man / Leon Edel. |
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Literature, Modern.
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Books -- Reviews.
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James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Added Author |
Brown, Francis, 1903-1995, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: New York times book review. Opinions and perspectives from the New York times book review. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1964 (OCoLC)614844010 |
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