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The critical reader; essays, stories, poems / edited by Roy Lamson, Hallett Smith, Hugh N. Maclean [and] Wallace W. Douglas.
LIBRA 828C D749 1962
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Douglas, Wallace W. (Wallace Warner), 1914-1995, editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature.
- American literature.
- Physical Description:
- 761 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Norton, [1962]
- Contents:
- The essays. The admiral on the wheel / James Thurber
- Progress and change / E.B. White
- Bellevue days / John McNulty
- The little water ceremony / Edmund Wilson
- Cagliari / D.H. Lawrence
- At the Gudgers' / James Agee
- Nonlecture two : i and their son / E.E. Cummings
- The picador / Ernest Hemingway
- The age of Rutherford / Sir Charles Snow
- Science and the humanities / Ernest Nagel
- Is ivy necessary? / Henry Steel Commager
- In search of the real Shakespeare / Hallett Smith
- Reflections on mass culture / Ernest van den Haag
- From France / Raymond Aron
- The Pastons and Chaucer / Virginia Woolf
- The Whig world / Lord David Cecil
- The poet and the press / Archibald MacLeish
- The well of English now defiled / Willard Thorp
- An interview with Truman Capote / Truman Capote (and Pati Hill).
- The stories. The lumber-room / Saki (H.H. Munro)
- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber
- Beat down frigid Rome / Esther Wagner
- Dear Alexandros / John Updike
- Goodbye, my brother / John Cheever
- The Gioconda smile / Aldous Huxley
- Babylon revisited / F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The short happy life of Francis Macomber / Ernest Hemingway
- Dry September / William Faulkner
- Noon wine / Katherine Anne Porter
- In the zoo / Jean Stafford
- Keela, the outcast Indian maiden / Eudora Welty
- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
- The celestial omnibus / E.M. Forster
- The dead / James Joyce.
- The poems. Terence, this is stupid stuff / A.E. Housman
- In my craft or sullen art / Dylan Thomas
- Poetry / Marianne Moore
- On first looking into Chapman's Homer / John Keats
- Two tramps in mud time / Robert Frost
- Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Of the characters of women / Alexander Pope
- Sir Patrick Spence ; Edward ; Lord Randal / anonymous
- Ballad of the Goodly Fere / Ezra Pound
- Journey of the magi / T.S. Eliot
- The chariot / Emily Dickinson
- The scholar-gypsy / Matthew Arnold
- Hymn to Earth / Elinor Wylie
- Spring and winter ; Full fathom five / William Shakespeare
- Call for the robin redbreast and the wren / John Webster
- To Althea, from prison / Richard Lovelace
- Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore ; The time of year thou mayst in me behold ; Let me not to the true marriage of true minds ; When in the chronicle of wasted time ; Tired with all these / William Shakespeare
- A valediction forbidding mourning / John Donne
- When our two souls stand up erect and strong / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Song / William Blake
- To autumn / John Keats
- The garden / Andrew Marvell
- The passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe
- The nymph's reply to the shepherd / Sir Walter Ralegh [i.e. Raleigh]
- Rose Aylmer / Walter Savage Landor
- Here lies a lady / John Crowe Ransom
- The exequy / Henry King
- On his blindness / John Milton
- To Homer / John Keats
- An Irish airman foresees his death / William Butler Yeats
- Ode (How sleep the brave) / William Collins
- Still to be neat / Ben Jonson
- Delight in disorder / Robert Herrick
- Never love unless you can / Thomas Campion
- A pretty a day / E.E. Cummings
- The night piece, to Julia / Robert Herrick
- To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell
- If I were tickled by the rub of love / Dylan Thomas
- Pied beauty ; The windhover / Gerard Manley Hopkins
- The great lover / Rupert Brooke
- The secular masque / John Dryden
- Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats
- Tithonus / Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Sailing to Byzantium ; A prayer for my daughter ; Whence had they come? / William Butler Yeats
- The eye / Robinson Jeffers
- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot
- Street song / Edith Sitwell
- Tract / William Carlos Williams
- Petition / W.H. Auden
- Boy-man / Karl Shapiro
- I think continually of those ; The express / Stephen Spender
- The emperor of ice-cream ; Anecdote of the jar / Wallace Stevens.
- Notes:
- In the first ed. Douglas's name appeared first on the t.p.
- OCLC:
- 1154112
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