<p>1973 First Printing, paperback. Very clean, no marks except owner name front, front edge of cover tiny crease, ow/like new.</p>

Thomas Wolfe;: A collection of critical essays, (Twentieth century views)

Rubin, Louis Decimus

Literature & Fiction

PRENTICE/HALL

These thirteen recent essays are vintage Louis Rubin. They represent the phenomenal literary energy of a gifted writer, publisher, and teacher who has been at it for half a century and is still alerting us to new and vigorous perceptions of American and English writing, writers, and cultural change. The essays range far beyond the American South, exploring a broad range of literary subjects, from Winston Churchill and historical revisionism, to ghost-writing and baseball players, to the situation of American letters today. "They are a variety show, " says Rubin; and we could not ask for a better emcee. His historical awareness, his astute literary judgment, and the impress of his witty and forthright personality combine to give authoritative unity to this collection. One group of essays deals chiefly with political and military history, including the Civil War and World Wars I and II, in varying literary, cultural, and ideological perspectives. Rubin is aware always of war's pervasive and persistent role in shaping our culture, our patterns of development, and our imagination. Another group includes a provocative consideration of T. S. Eliot as a poet and critic who showed his contemporaries a way to express passion in language; an uncompromising essay on the idiosyncratic Edmund Wilson as a writer of critical journals; a consideration of newsman H. L. Mencken and the old Baltimore days of American journalism; and a review of versions of Huey Long, fictional and nonfictional, which moves on to explore the nature of biography and fiction. A final selection recalls the Fugitive Poets' reunion at Vanderbilt University in the 1950s, and concludes with Rubin's superb memoirs of two remarkable men of letters, Cleanth Brooks and Howard Nemerov.

Babe Ruth's Ghost: And Other Historical and Literary Speculations

Biographies & Memoirs

Univ of Washington Pr

A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Southern Literature more tools

Reference

Louisiana State Univ Pr

William Elliott Shoots a Bear: Essays on the Southern Literary Imagination

History & Criticism

<p>Very Good; Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1969. First paperback edition. Includes appendix containing sixty-eight additional writers of the colonial South, by J.A. Leo Lemay. Octavo, wraps, 368 numbered pages, but the last 17 of those are blank (intended, presumably, for user notes). Very Good. Spine and proximate portion of front cover somewhat sunned, prior owner's signature on inside front cover, else a solid very good, unmarked and apparently only lightly used if at all. See scan. LT-7</p>

A bibliographical guide to the study of Southern literature, (Southern literary studies)

Louisiana State University Press

The author masterfully explores and illusrates the relationships between the poety, novels, and literary criticism of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Donald Davidson and Robert Penn Warren, and their work as social critics.

The Wary Fugitives: Four Poets and the South (The Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History)

Louisiana State Univ Press, 1967, Good., Ex-library copy with dust jacket. Text clean. Corner of front flyleaf clipped. [Literary Criticism, American Literature, Novel] Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care.

The Curious Death of the Novel, Essays in American Literature

Surfaces of a diamond: A novel

United States

A Gallery of Southerners

Gallery of Southerners

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