The function of the poet and other essays
By: by James Russell Lowell ; collected and edited by Albert Mordell.
Series: Library of American civilization -- LAC 12023.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Literature.
Notes: "This edition consists of five hundred and seventy-five copies."

Microfiche. Chicago : Library Resources, 1970. 1 microfiche ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of American civilization ; LAC 12023)
Table of contents: value: On poetry and belles-lettres: The function of the poet. Humor, wit, fun, and satire. The five indispensable authors (Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Goethe, Shakespeare) The imagination. Critical fragments: 1. Life in literature and language. 2. Style and manner. 3. Kalevala.; value: Reviews of contemporaries: Henry James: James's tales and sketches. Longfellow: The courtship of Miles Standish. Tales of a wayside inn. Whittier: In war time, and other poems. Home ballads and poems. Snow-bound: a winter idyl. Poetry and nationality. W. D. Howells: Venetian life. Edgar A. Poe. Thackeray: roundabout papers.; value: Two great authors: Swift: Forster's life of Swift. Plutarch's morals. A plea for freedom from speech and figures of speech-makers.