New England writers and writing
By: Malcolm Cowley ; edited, and with an introduction by Donald W. Faulkner.
Contributors: Faulkner, Donald W.
Series: Library of New England
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Hanover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: American literature -- New England -- History and criticism.; Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- New England.; New England -- In literature.; New England -- Intellectual life.
Description: For more than half a century, Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989) cast a long shadow across the landscape of American literary criticism, forming our views of luminaries like Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and Hemingway and enhancing our understanding of dozens of others. A transplanted but long-time New Englander, Cowley focused much of his critical attention on the region's plethora of eminent authors, and this collection combines those essays with his writings about the New England he knew and loved.

Cowley is equally at home with Hawthorne, James, Emerson, Melville, Frost, Aiken, Cheever, Cummings - and the characters and customs of his adoptive region. In a poem included here, Cowley writes of his wish to love the earth and "to speak some words in patterns that will be remembered." This book is testimony to his gift for - and fulfillment of - both.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-309) and index.