Writing Was Everything
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: May 26, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780674962378
Subjects: Biography: general; Cultural studies; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary theory; Kazin, Alfred,; Biography/Autobiography; American Literature (General); Theory Of Literature; Biography / Autobiography; English; USA; Criticism; Literary; Biography & Autobiography / Literary; Kazin, Alfred; Theory, etc; United States; 1915-; 20th century; American literature; Biography; Critics; History; History and criticism
First sentence: Sixty years ago, in the summer of 1934, nineteen years old and with a year to go at City College of New York, I became one of the crowd of hacks barely surviving the depression by doing book reviews for "The New Republic."
Table of contents: title: Prologue: All Critics are Mortal; title: Before the War; title: During the War; title: After the War