Literary opinion in America; essays illustrating the status, methods, and problems of criticism in the United States in the twentieth century.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zabel, Morton Dauwen, 1901-1964, editor.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Harper torchbooks. University library ; TB3013-3014.

Harper torchbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism--United States.

Criticism.

United States.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

American essays.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 21 cm.

Edition:

Third edition, revised.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harper & Row, [1962]

Contents:

v. 1: pt. 1. Situation and prospectus

Criticism ; The question of opportunities ; The great form / Henry James

The question of a criterion / William Dean Howells

The aesthetic / John Jay Chapman

Our cultural humility / Randolph Bourne

The great American novel / James Gibbons Huneker

The critical movement in America / Van Wyck Brooks

pt. 2. Versions of tradition and responsibility

Tradition and the individual talent ; Poetry and propaganda / T.S. Eliot

Penitent art ; Tragic philosophy / George Santayana

The American critic / J.E. Spingarn

The critic and American life / Irving Babbitt

How to read "Lycidas" / Paul Elmer More

The American novel / H.L. Mencken

Date line ; A stray document ; How to read (Part II: or what may be an introduction to method) / Ezra Pound

pt. 3. The individual talent

James Joyce ; T.S. Eliot / Edmund Wilson

Hart Crane ; Ezra Pound / Allen Tate

Thomas Mann and André Gide / Kenneth Burke

Makers of modern poetry: I. A knight of the infinite (Gerard Manley Hopkins) ; II. Heretics (Rimbaud and Lawrence) ; III. The poet of the encirclement (Rudyard Kipling) ; IV. The public vs. the late Mr. William Butler Yeats / W.H. Auden

The later poetry of W.B. Yeats / Theodore Spencer

T.S. Eliot: the four quartets / F.O. Matthiessen

Notes on E.E. Cummings' language / R.P. Blackmur

Paul Valéry / Philip Blair Rice

Virginia Woolf: the novel of sensibility / William Troy

Gertrude Stein: a self-portrait / Katherine Anne Porter

James on a revolutionary theme / Louise Bogan

Shaw at ninety / Eric Bentley

D.H. Lawrence: the posthumous reputation / Horace Gregory

Franz Kafka / Austin Warren

A literalist of the imagination (Marianne Moore) / Morton Dauwen Zabel

Scott Fitzgerald and the imaginative possession of American life / Arthur Mizener.

v. 2: pt 4: The writer and critic in America

Henry James as a characteristic American ; The poetry of Wallace Stevens / Marianne Moore

Reality in America / Lionel Trilling

Robert Frost, or, the spiritual drifter as poet ; Robinson Jeffers / Yvor Winters

Hemingway ; William Faulkner / Robert Penn Warren

Sherwood Anderson: an American as artist / Irving Howe

John Dos Passos: the poet and the world / Malcolm Cowley

Sinclair Lewis / Robert Cantwell

Willa Cather / E.K. Brown

Eugene O'Neill / Francis Fergusson

American drama in production: I. Mourning becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill ; II. Street scene by Elmer Rice ; III. Winterset by Maxwell Anderson / Stark Young

Two American playwrights: I. The austerity of George Kelly ; II. The dramatic variety of Sidney Howard / Joseph Wood Krutch

Individualism and the American writer / Newton Arvin

The cult of experience in American writing / Philip Rahv

The Americanism of Van Wyck Brooks / F.W. Dupee

The literary dictatorship of T.S. Eliot / Delmore Schwartz

An approach to Melville / Richard Chase

William James and Henry James: "Our passion is our task" / Alfred Kazin

pt. 5: Modern criticism: its problems, methods, and prospects

Experiment in criticism ; Religion and literature ; From Poe to Valéry / T.S. Eliot

Criticism as pure speculation / John Crowe Ransom

Literature as an institution / Harry Levin

Psychology and form / Kenneth Burke

Freud and literature / Lionel Trilling

Marxism and literature / Edmund Wilson

Private experience and public philosophy / William Phillips and Philip Rahv

I.A. Richards on the art of interpretation / R.S. Crane

Irony as a principle of structure / Cleanth Brooks

The end of the line / Randall Jarrell

The end of modern literature: existentialism and crisis / William Barrett

Attempts at an integration / Stanley Edgar Hyman

A critic's job of work / R.P. Blackmur

Appendices

Recent works of American criticism

II. Collections of contemporary American criticism

III. American magazines publishing criticism

IV. Notes on contributors

V.A supplementary list of essays in criticism, 1900-1950

VI. A note on contemporary English criticism

VII. American criticism since 1951.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy imperfect: v.1 only.

Other Format:

Online version: Zabel, Morton Dauwen, 1901-1964. Literary opinion in America.

OCLC:

328363