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462

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Criticism; some major American writers.
1971, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
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Table of Contents

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

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Dewey Decimal Class
810.9
Library of Congress
PS121 .L4

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xv, 462 p.
Number of pages
462

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OL5704141M
Internet Archive
criticismsomemaj0000lear
ISBN 10
0030783607
LCCN
70145658
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5428819

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