Masks & mirrors; essays in criticism.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Atheneum
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism.; English literature -- History and criticism.
Table of contents: value: The mask of John Donne.; value: The colloquial Byron.; value: The romantic imagination and the unromantic Byron.; value: Death and the James family.; value: Henry James's English hours.; value: Two American painters: Copley and Allston.; value: Mrs. Wharton's mask.; value: Scott Fitzgerald: The apprentice fiction.; value: Problems of American literary biography: Longfellow, Sinclair Lewis, Mark Twain.; value: Problems of American cultural history: O strange new world, Patriotic gore.; value: The heroic and the romantic West.; value: Wah-to-yah and the Taos Trail, a minor classic of the West.; value: James Fenimore Cooper, America's mirror of conscience.; value: The Land of Oz, America's great good place.; value: Wallace Stevens and Emerson.; value: The poetry of Isaac Rosenberg.; value: Eliot, Pound, and history.; value: Hart Crane's last poem.; value: A new kind of poetry?