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Alms for oblivion : essays / by Edward Dahlberg ; with a foreword by Sir Herbert Read.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dahlberg, Edward, 1900-1977.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (177 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1964]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume makes available in book form a collection of seventeen essays by Edward Dahlberg, who has been called one of the great unrecognized writers of our time. Some of the selections have never been published before; others have appeared previously only in magazines of limited circulation. There is a foreword by Sir Herbert Read. The individual essays are on a wide range of subjects - literary, historical, philosophical, personal. The longest is a discussion of Herman Melville's work entitled "Moby-Dick - A Hamitic Dream."
- Contents:
- Foreword; Table of Contents; My Friends Stieglitz, Anderson, and Dreiser; Midwestern Fable; Word-Sick and Place-Crazy; No Love and No Thanks; Robert McAlmon: A Memoir; The Expatriates: A Memoir; For Sale; Peopleless Fiction; Chivers and Poe; Cutpurse Philosopher; Randolph Bourne; Domestic Manners of the Americans; Our Vanishing Cooperative Colonies; Florentine Codex; Beyond the Pillars of Hercules; Moby-Dick: A Hamitic Dream; Allen Tate, the Forlorn Demon
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-5738-6
- OCLC:
- 476161689
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