A continuing journey / by Archibald MacLeish.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Essays.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

x, 374 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968.

Contents:

Part I. The idea of man: Who precisely do you think you are?; Yeats and the belief in life; Poetry and journalism

Part II. State of the union: Changes in the weather; The conquest of the United States; "National purpose"; The unimagined America; A view of Oxford, Mississippi; A decent respect

Part III. The second Civil War: A dedication; The teacher's faith; The worm at heart; The alternative

Part IV. Writers in a wrong time: Faulkner at Stockholm; The muses' sterner laws; The isolation of the American artist; Why can't they say what they mean?

Part V. Teaching and Harvard: Why do we teach poetry?; On the teaching of writing; Education and the work of art; The knowable and the known; What is English?; A retiring view of Harvard; An Hellenic center in Washington

Part VI. People: Eleanor Roosevelt; Mrs. Roosevelt: an anniversary; F.F.; Adlai Stevenson; Elmer Davis; Robert Frost and John F. Kennedy; Ernest Hemingway; St. John Perse; A memoir of Muir; Mark Van Doren; Jorge Guillén; Jane Addams in Chicago; The great-grandfather; Thirteen candles: one for every state.

Notes:

With half-title.

"Copyright 1967 by Archibald MacLeish."

"This book ... was written piece by piece over a period of twenty years from the middle Forties to the middle Sixties for periodicals as diverse as 'The Nation' and the New York 'Times,' "Life" and the 'Atlantic,' but because the scene throughout was the political and intellectual and literary foreshore of those uneasy years the parts compose a kind of whole, a continuing journey."--Foreword.

"Jacket design/Jeanyee Wong."

Blue-green cloth boards lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge stained yellow.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy is "First Printing C".

OCLC:

288878