Malcolm Cowley
Author
Language
English
Description
Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Crane, Hemingway, Wilder, Dos Passos, Cowley and others "escaped" to Europe, as exiles. The adventures and attitudes shared by these American writers, dubbed "the lost generation", are brought to life in this book of prose works.
Author
Series
Edition
Rev. and expanded ed.
Language
English
Description
Presents self-contained sections from William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha novels, including such stories as "A Rose for Emily," "That Evening Sun," and "Old Man"; a Yoknapatawpha County map; a chronology of the Compson family; and Faulkner's 1950 Nobel Prize address.
Author
Series
Arcturus books volume 111
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Pub. Date
[1973, c1970]
Physical Desc
xviii, 261 p. 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1976, ©1959
Edition
1st (1855) ed.
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 145 pages : portrait ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Whitman is today regarded as America's Homer or Dante, and his work the touchstone for literary originality in the New World. In Leaves of Grass, he abandoned the rules of traditional poetry - breaking the standard metred line, discarding the obligatory rhyming scheme, and using the vernacular. Emily Dickinson condemned his sexual and physiological allusions as d̀isgraceful', but Emerson saw the book as the m̀ost extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom...
