Criticism; some major American writers.
By: Selected by Lewis Leary.
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: An introduction: somewhat personal, by L. Leary.; title: Introduction to Poe, by R. Wilbur.; title: The unconquered eye and the enchanted circle, by T. Tanner.; title: Thoreau, by F. O. Matthiessen.; title: Hawthorne's fiction: the light and the dark, by R. H. Fogle.; title: Moby-Dick: work of art, by W. E. Bezanson.; title: Walt Whitman: he had his nerve, by R. Jarrell.; title: Seeing New Englandly: from Edwards to Emerson to Dickinson, by A. J. Gelpi.; title: Henry James and the morality of fiction, by R. J. Reilly.; title: Southwestern vernacular, by J. M. Cox.; title: William Dean Howells and the roots of modern taste, by L. Trilling.; title: Outstripping the event, by L. Ziff.; title: Theodore Dreiser: his education and ours, by A. Kazin.; title: T. S. Eliot's magic, lantern, by L. Unger.; title: Robert Frost's theory of poetry, by L. Thompson.; title: The function of nostalgia, by W. Morris.; title: The hero and the code, by P. Young.; title: Introduction to ... Faulkner, by M. Cowley.; title: The greatest living author, by K. Shapiro.; title: Richard Wright's blues, by R. Ellison.; title: Ralph Ellison and the American comic tradition, by E. H. Rovit.; title: Saul Bellow, by L. A. Fiedler.; title: The Black boy looks at the White boy, by J. Baldwin.; title: Black boys and native sons, by I. Howe.