A Dial miscellany. / Edited with an introd. by William Wasserstrom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Wasserstrom, William, editor.

Standardized Title:

Dial (Chicago, Ill.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Collections.

Literature.

Newspapers.

Genre:

Collections.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

xxx, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[Syracuse] : Syracuse University Press, 1963.

Summary:

Anthology of poetry, fiction and reportage selected from the influential journal of the 1920s, "The Dial."

Contents:

Poetry, our first national art / James Oppenheim

The spirit of the old hotel / John Gould Fletcher

Renoir, an appreciation / Arbert C. Barnes

Americanism and localism / John Dewey

Mrs. Maecenas / Kenneth Burke

Cock and harlequin / Jean Cocteau ; tr. Rollo H. Myers

"Madame a sa tour monte ..." / Louis Aragon ; tr. Gilbert Seldes

An episode / D.H. Lawrence

A bird's-eye view of E.A. Robinson / Amy Lowell

A study of language (review of Language, by Edward Sapir) / A.L. Kroeber

Off the shoals (review of The enormous room, by E.E. Cummings) / John Dos Passos

The man with the flower in his mouth / Luigi Pirandello ; tr. Arthur Livingston

Model Americans (review of Americans, by Stuart P. Sherman) / D.H. Lawrence

A long way round to Nirvana / G. Santayana

The cavern of silence / Miguel de Unamuno ; tr. Louis How

Well moused, lion (review of Harmonium, by Wallace Stevens) / Marianne Moore

A note on Hawaiian poetry / Padraic Colum

In a thicket / Glenway Wescott

Dr Freud on art / Clive Bell

Marianne Moore (review of Observations, by Marianne Moore) / William Carlos Williams

A Christmas story / Feodor Dostoevsky ; tr. C.M. Grand

Spring flight (review of The great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald) / Gilbert Seldes

Mina Loy / Yvor Winters

The meaning of meaning (review of The meaning of meaning, by Ogden and Richards) / Bertrand Russell.

Under the roof / Seán O'Faoláin

A "logic" of history (review of The decline of the West, by Oswald Spengler) / Kenneth Burke

Gerard Hopkins / I.A. Richards

Literature, science, and dogma (review of Science and poetry, by I.A. Richards) / T.S. Eliot

Apparition in early autumn / Robert Hillyer

A glance at the soul of Japan / Paul Claudel ; tr. Lillian Chamberlain

On the shore / Albert Halper

Retreat (review of For Lancelot Andrewes : essays on style and order, by T.S. Eliot) / Conrad Aiken

The lawyers know too much / Carl Sandburg

To love impuissant / Edna St. Vincent Millay

A memory of the players in a mirror at midnight / James Joyce

Picking and choosing / Marianne Moore

The fifth Canto / Ezra Pound

Instructions for a ballet / Maxwell Bodenheim

Revue / Wallace Stevens

Apology of genius / Mina Loy

Hibernal / Babette Deutsch

Poem / E.E. Cummings

First communion / Djuna Barnes

Full moon / William Carlos Williams

Mo-ti / Lola Ridge

Three Hawaiian poems / Padraic Colum

Storm centre / Genevieve Taggard

The hollow men / T.S. Eliot

Those of Lucifer / Malcolm Cowley

Nocturne / Archibald MacLeish

To Brooklyn Bridge / Hart Crane

Among the schoolchildren / William Butler Yeats

Four poems / Louis Zukofsky

Death in moonlight / Stanley J. Kunitz.

London letter (October, 1921) / T.S. Eliot

Modern art (December, 1921) / Henry McBride

Editor's comment, on a letter from Vernon Squires, University of North Dakota

Musical chronicle (January, 1922) / Paul Rosenfeld

Paris letter (June, 1922) / Ezra Pound

Dublin letter (October, 1922) / John Eglinton

Editor's comment, on The Dial's award to T.S. Eliot

The theatre (May, 1923) / Edmund Wilson, Jr.

Italian letter (May, 1923) / Raffaello Piccoli

Editor's comment, on The literary review

German letter (October, 1923) / Thomas Mann

Modern art (November, 1923) / Henry McBride

Musical chronicle (November, 1923) / Paul Rosenfeld

Russian letter (February, 1924) / Alexander Eliasberg

Spanish letter (October, 1924) / José Ortega y Gasset

Editors' comment, "The dial is an intellectual sewer"

Briefer mention, book reviews

Paris letter (June, 1926) / Paul Morand

Modern art (May, 1926) / Henry McBride

Musical chronicle (April, 1927) / Paul Rosenfeld

The theatre (January, 1928) / Gilbert Seldes

London letter (March, 1928) / Raymond Mortimer

Paris letter (April, 1929) / Paul Morand.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Dial (Chicago, Ill.). Dial miscellany.

OCLC:

263273