Literary opinion in America; essays illustrating the status, methods, and problems of criticism in the United States since the war; edited, with an introduction by Morton Dauwen Zabel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, London, Harper & brothers, 1937.Description: 2 p. l., iii-liv, 637 p. 22 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN771 .Z2
Contents:
Tradition and the individual talent / T.S. Eliot -- Experiment in criticism / T.S. Eliot -- Poetry and propaganda / T.S. Eliot -- The critical movement in America / Van Wyck Brooks -- The critic and American life / Irving Babbitt -- How to read "Lycidas" / Paul Elmer More -- The American critic / J.E. Spingarn -- The American novel / H.L. Mencken -- The esthetic of regionalism / John Crowe Ransom -- Penitent art / George Santayana -- Tragic philosophy / George Santayana -- James Joyce / Edmund Wilson -- T.S. Eliot / Edmund Wilson -- Hart Crane / Allen Tate -- Ezra Pound / Allen Tate -- Henry James as a characteristic American / Marianne Moore -- The poetry of Wallace Stevens / Marianne Moore -- Traditional mastery : the lyrics of Robert Bridges / Yvor Winters -- Robinson Jeffers / Yvor Winters -- Emily Dickinson / Charles K. Trueblood -- The later poetry of W.B. Yeats / Theodore Spencer -- American drama in production / Stark Young -- Three types of American playwright / Joseph Wood Krutch -- Eugene O'Neill / Francis Fergusson -- Three phases of post-war fiction / Robert Morss Lovett -- Virginia Woolf : the novel of sensibility / William Troy -- The Hamlet of Thomas Wolfe / Robert Penn Warren -- T.S. Stribling : a paragraph in the history of critical realism / Robert Penn Warren -- Viola Meynell / Louise Bogan -- Four poets in America / Morton Dauwen Zabel -- François Mauriac / George N. Shuster -- Paul Valéry / Philip Blair Rice -- Psychology and form / Kenneth Burke -- Thomas Mann and André Gide / Kenneth Burke -- John Dos Passos : the poet and the world / Malcolm Cowley -- Ernest Hemingway : a farewell to Spain / Malcolm Cowley -- D.H. Lawrence : the posthumous reputation / Horace Gregory -- The proletarian poet / Horace Gregory -- Individualism and the American writer / Newton Arvin -- No landmarks / Robert Cantwell -- Sinclair Lewis / Robert Cantwell -- Private experience and public philosophy / William Phillips and Philip Rahv -- Notes on E.E. Cummings' language / R.P. Blackmur -- A critic's job of work / R.P. Blackmur.
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"First edition."

"Recent works of American criticism"; p. 613-618; "Collections of contemporary American criticism": p. 619-620; "American magazines publishing criticism" : p. 621-626.

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Tradition and the individual talent / T.S. Eliot -- Experiment in criticism / T.S. Eliot -- Poetry and propaganda / T.S. Eliot -- The critical movement in America / Van Wyck Brooks -- The critic and American life / Irving Babbitt -- How to read "Lycidas" / Paul Elmer More -- The American critic / J.E. Spingarn -- The American novel / H.L. Mencken -- The esthetic of regionalism / John Crowe Ransom -- Penitent art / George Santayana -- Tragic philosophy / George Santayana -- James Joyce / Edmund Wilson -- T.S. Eliot / Edmund Wilson -- Hart Crane / Allen Tate -- Ezra Pound / Allen Tate -- Henry James as a characteristic American / Marianne Moore -- The poetry of Wallace Stevens / Marianne Moore -- Traditional mastery : the lyrics of Robert Bridges / Yvor Winters -- Robinson Jeffers / Yvor Winters -- Emily Dickinson / Charles K. Trueblood -- The later poetry of W.B. Yeats / Theodore Spencer -- American drama in production / Stark Young -- Three types of American playwright / Joseph Wood Krutch -- Eugene O'Neill / Francis Fergusson -- Three phases of post-war fiction / Robert Morss Lovett -- Virginia Woolf : the novel of sensibility / William Troy -- The Hamlet of Thomas Wolfe / Robert Penn Warren -- T.S. Stribling : a paragraph in the history of critical realism / Robert Penn Warren -- Viola Meynell / Louise Bogan -- Four poets in America / Morton Dauwen Zabel -- François Mauriac / George N. Shuster -- Paul Valéry / Philip Blair Rice -- Psychology and form / Kenneth Burke -- Thomas Mann and André Gide / Kenneth Burke -- John Dos Passos : the poet and the world / Malcolm Cowley -- Ernest Hemingway : a farewell to Spain / Malcolm Cowley -- D.H. Lawrence : the posthumous reputation / Horace Gregory -- The proletarian poet / Horace Gregory -- Individualism and the American writer / Newton Arvin -- No landmarks / Robert Cantwell -- Sinclair Lewis / Robert Cantwell -- Private experience and public philosophy / William Phillips and Philip Rahv -- Notes on E.E. Cummings' language / R.P. Blackmur -- A critic's job of work / R.P. Blackmur.