Talking back to Emily Dickinson and other essays / William H. Pritchard.

Author/creator Pritchard, William H.
Format Book
Publication InfoAmherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1998.
Descriptionxiii, 303 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
English literature--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.

Contents Writing well is the best revenge -- That Shakespearian rag -- Burke's great melody -- Responding to Blake -- Wordsworth's "Resolution and independence" -- Byron in his letters -- My Bront ͡problem, and yours? -- Reading Hawthorne -- Nineteenth-century American poetry -- Talking back to Emily Dickinson -- Matthew Arnolds' permanence -- What to do with Carlyle? -- Henry James on tour -- Yeats's first fifty years -- T.S. Eliot: a revaluation -- Fabulous monster: Ford Madox Ford as literary critic -- R.P. Blackmur's last song -- Anthony Powell's serious comedy -- Appreciating Kingsley Amis -- Naipaul's written world -- Looking back at Lessing -- Mailer in retrospect -- Terry Southern: R.I.P. -- Robert Penn Warren's late poems -- Donald Hall's poetry -- Donald Davie as critic of modern poets -- The last man of letters: Julian Symons.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 98010322
ISBN1558491384 (alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PR99 .P74 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold