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The collected essays and occasional writings of Katherine Anne Porter.
Van Pelt Library PS3531.O752 A6 1970
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Essays.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980 (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xi, 496 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Delacorte Press, [1970]
- Summary:
- Anthology of the distinguished American author's essays, biographical memoirs and poems on such diverse subjects as Thomas Hardy, marriage, the creative process and Dylan Thomas.
- Contents:
- Critical: On a criticism of Thomas Hardy
- Wreath for the gamekeeper
- Reflections on Willa Cather
- "It is hard to stand in the middle"
- Art of Katherine Mansfield
- Orpheus in purgatory
- "Laughing heat of the sun"
- On Christopher Sykes
- Virginia Woolf
- E.M. Forster
- Max Beerbohm
- Eleanor Clark
- Wingéd skull
- On modern fiction
- Personal and particular: St. Augustine and the bullfight
- Little incident in the Rue de l'Odéon
- Letter to Sylvia Beach
- Letters to a nephew
- Dylan Thomas
- Defense of Circe
- Pull Dick, pull devil
- Flower of flowers
- Note on Pierre-Joseph Redouté
- Portrait: Old South
- Audubon's happy land
- House of my own
- Letter to the editor of The Village Voice
- Necessary enemy
- "Marriage is belonging"
- Act of faith: 4 July 1942
- Future is now
- Letter to the editor of The Nation
- On Communism in Hollywood
- Letter to the editor of The Saturday Review of Literature
- Opening speech at Paris Conference, 1952
- Remarks on the agenda
- Letter to the Editor of The Yale Review
- Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post
- Speech of acceptance
- Biographical: Days before
- Homage to Ford Madox Ford
- Gertrude Stein: Three views
- Ole Woman River
- Eudora Welty and a curtain of green
- Sprig of mint for Allen
- On first meeting T.S. Eliot
- Flannery O'Connor at home
- From the notebooks: Yeats, Joyce, Eliot, Pound
- Romany Marie, Joe Gould-Two legends come to life
- Jacqueline Kennedy
- Cotton Mather: Affectation of Praehiminincies (A.D. 1663-1675)
- Goat for Azazel (A.D. 1688)
- Bright particular faith (A.D.1700)
- Mexican: Why I write about Mexico
- Notes on the life and death of a hero
- Miss Porter adds a comment
- Leaving the Petate
- Fiesta of Guadalupe
- Mexican Trinity
- Where presidents have no friends
- La Conquistadora
- Quetzalcoatl
- Charmed life
- On Writing: My first speech
- Notes on writing
- Three statements about writing
- No plot, my dear, no story
- On writing
- "Noon Wine": Sources
- Poems: Enchanted
- Two songs from Mexico
- Little requiem
- Winter burial
- Anniversary in a country cemetery
- November in Windham
- After a long journey
- Measures for song and dance.
- Notes:
- "A Seymour Lawrence book."
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is special edition signed by the author, limited to two hundred and fifty copies, no. 13.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has slipcase retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980. Collected essays and occasional writings of Katherine Anne Porter.
- OCLC:
- 66040
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