"Key editions." Contains contributions by Max Beerbohm, William Dean Howells, G.K. Chesterton, Maurice Hewlett, E.M. Forster, Theodore Dreiser, Joseph Conrad, William Butler Yeats, Henry James, Stephen Leacock, Ring Lardner, James Agee, Aldous Huxley, W. Somerset Maugham, H.L. Mencken, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, James Thurber, Edmund Wilson, W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, George Orwell, Gertrude Stein, Henry Miller, T.S. Eliot, and others. Contains contributions by Max Beerbohm, William Dean Howells, G. K. Chesterton, Maurice Hewlett, E. M. Forster, Theodore Dreiser, Joseph Conrad, William Butler Yeats, Henry James, Stephen Leacock, Ring Lardner, James Agee, Aldous Huxley, W. Somerset Maugham, H. L. Mencken, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, James Thurber, Edmund Wilson, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, George Orwell, Gertrude Stein, Henry Miller, T. S. Eliot, and others.
Contents:
Social function of poetry / On the reading of the essay -- Conversation with a cat / T.S. Eliot. Opinions / Agnes Repplier -- On speaking French / Max Berrbohm -- On the difference between wit and humor / Charles S. Brooks -- Circus in the suburbs / William Dean Howells -- Writing / E.S. Martin -- Classic debate / Frank Moore Colby -- Science and the savages / G.K. Chesterton -- Montaigne / Maurice Hewlett -- In praise of fireworks / James G. Huneker -- What I believe / E.M. Foster -- Secrecy-its value / Theodore Dreiser -- Preface to the Nigger of the Narcissus / Joseph Conrad -- Philosophy of handicap / Randolph Bourne -- Symbolism of poetry / William Butler Yeats -- Within the rim / Henry James -- Art of fascinating / Franklin P. Adams -- My remarkable uncle / Stephen Leacock -- How to write short stories / Ring Lardner -- From Spargo to Carver to speaker / Heywood Broun -- Preface to a book of statistics / Don Marquis -- Martial-a Roman journalist / Keith Preston -- Exercise / George Jean Nathan -- Likes and dislikes / James Agate -- Young love / Hans Zinsser -- Selected snobberies / Aldous Huxley -- Sleep, sweet sleep / Thomas Mann -- Private universe / André Maurois -- Edison: inventor of invention / Walter Lippmann -- Disadvantages of being educated / Albert Jay Nock -- From writer and reader / W. Somerset Maugham -- Education / H.L. Mencken -- On education / Albert Einstein -- Liberal arts liberate spirit / George Santayana -- Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son / Virginia Woolf -- Whistling of birds / D.H. Lawrence -- Political honesty / Benedetto Croce -- Free man's worship / Bertrand Russell -- What statesmen must know / Oswald Spengler -- From universities and their function / Alfred North Whitehead -- Children's hour / Robert Benchley -- Ladies' and gentlemen's guide to modern English usage / James Thurber -- Woomanship / Stephen Potter -- From talk of the town / The New Yorker -- Vacation coming up / New York Times -- Juniper corner / New York Herald Tribune -- Rattling urn / London Times -- Other literature / Manchester Guardian -- Radio and television dialog / John Crosby -- Somewhat like poetry / Red Smith -- Pleasant agony / John Mason Brown -- On unreading the classics / Dudley Fitts -- No essays, please! / Joseph Wood Krutch -- His majesty, the king / Paul Gallico -- Books of etiquette and Emily Post / Edmund Wilson -- Once more to the lake / E.B. White -- From once around the sun / Brooks Atkinson -- Threnody for an English athlete / J.E. Niroyrgi -- Guilty vicarage / W.H. Auden -- "Can't we do without the poets?" / Stephen Spender -- Screwtape letter, No. 23 / C.S. Lewis -- How to make a civilization / Clive Bell -- Reflections on Gandhi / George Orwell -- Wind at Djemila / Albert Camus -- Essence of tragedy / Maxwell Anderson -- Art and life / Kenneth Burke -- Collapse of modern philosophy / Étienne Gilson -- My view of history / Arnold Toynbee -- Poetry and prose / Jean-Paul Sartre -- How writing is written / Gertrude Stein -- Of art and the future / Henry Miller -- Social function of poetry / T.S. Eliot.
Series:
Key editions
OCLC:
(OCoLC)2679231
LCCN:
53000441
Locations:
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
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