A shaping joy
Subtitle: studies in the writer's craft.
Publisher: Methuen
Published: 1971
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism.; American literature -- History and criticism.
Table of contents: title: The uses of literature.; title: The modern writer and his community.; title: T. S. Eliot: thinker and artist.; title: Poetry since The waste land.; title: Joyce's Ulysses: symbolic poem, biography or novel.; title: Poetry and poeticality.; title: W. B. Yeats as a literary critic.; title: Auden as a literary critic.; title: The criticism of fiction: the role of close analysis.; title: American literature: mirror, lens or prism?; title: The American "innocence" in James, Fitzgerald and Faulkner.; title: The Southern temper.; title: Southern literature: the wellsprings of its vitality.; title: Faulkner's treatment of the racial problem: typical examples.; title: Faulkner as a poet.; title: The doric delicacy.; title: Edgar Allan Poe as an interior decorator.; title: A. E. Housman.; title: Wordsworth and human suffering: notes on two early poems.; title: Milton and the new criticism.; title: Eve's awakening.; title: The unity of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.