American critical essays, twentieth century
By: Selected, with an introd. by Harold Beaver.
Series: The World's classics, 575
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1959
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism.; Criticism -- United States.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Table of contents: title: The hall-marks of American, by H. L. Mencken.; title: What is literature, what is language, etc.?? by E. Pound.; title: Theodore Dreiser, by V. Brooks.; title: The sense of poetry: Shakespeare's "The phoenix and the turtle," by I. A. Richards.; title: The politics of Flaubert, by E. Wilson.; title: Poet without critics: a note on Robinson Jeffers, by H. Gregory.; title: Thomas Wolfe: the professional deformation, by M. Cowley.; title: Emily Dickinson, by A. Warren.; title: The man of letters in the modern world, by A. Tate.; title: Maule's curse or Hawthorne and the problem of allegory, by Y. Winters.; title: Willa Cather: the tone of time, by M. D. Zabel.; title: Tradition and the individual talent, by F. O. Matthiessen.; title: An adjunct to the muses' diadem: a note on E. P., by R. P. Blackmur.; title: William Faulkner, by R. P. Warren.; title: Huckleberry Finn, by L. Trilling.; title: What does poetry communicate? by C. Brooks.; title: Henry James: The American scene, by W. H. Auden.; title: Paleface and redskin, by P. Rahy.; title: Observations on the style of Ernest Hemingway, by H. Levin.; title: The broken circuit: romance and the American novel, by R. Chase.; title: Ishmael and Ahab, by A. Kazin.; title: The book of the grotesque, by I. Howe.