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Selected essays of Delmore Schwartz. Edited by Donald A. Dike & David H. Zucker. With an appreciation by Dwight Macdonald.

by Schwartz, Delmore, 1913-1966,, author.

University of Chicago Press [1970]

American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

English literature -- History and criticism

xxiv, 500 pages 24 cm

1. The poet and poetry. The isolation of modern poetry (1941) ; The vocation of the poet in the modern world (1951) ; Views of a second violinist (1949) ; The present state of poetry (1958) -- 2. On poets. Rimbaud in our time (1939) ; Poetry and belief in Thomas Hardy (1940) ; The poet as poet (1939) ; An unwritten book (1942) ; Ezra Pound's very useful labors (1938) ; Ezra Pound and history (1960) ; T. S. Eliot as the internation hero (1945) ; T. S. Eliot's voice and his voices (1954, 1955) ; The two Audens (1939) ; The poetry of Allen Tate (1940) ; Instructed of much motality: a note on the poetry of John Croww Ransom (1946) ; The man with the blue guitar, and other poems (1946) ; In the orchards of the imagination (1954) ; Wallace Stevens: an appreciation (1955) ; The cunning and the craft of the unconscious and the preconscious -- 3. On fiction. The duchess' red shoes (1953) ; Ring Lardner: highbrow in hiding (1956) ; John Dos Passos and the whole truth (1938) ; The fabulous example of André Gide (1951) ; The fiction of Ernest Hemingway (1955) ; The fiction of William Faulkner (1941) ; Faulkner's A fable (1955) -- 4. On critics. Our literary critics: an appreciation (1954) ; The literary dictatorship of T. S. Eliot (1949) ; Primitivism and decadence by Yvor Winters (1938) ; The critical method of R. P. Blackmur (1938) ; The writing of Edmund Wilson (1942) -- 5. Miscellaneous pieces: reviews and comments. The grapes of crisis (1951) ; Novels and the news (1959) ; French taste in American writing (1955) ; Our country and our culture (1952) ; The meaningfulness of absurdity (1946) ; Does existentialism still exist? (1948) ; Smile and grin, relax and collapse (1950) ; Masterpieces as cartoons (1952) -- 6. On movie people and movies. The genius of W. C Fields (1950) ; Mary Pickford: the little girl in curls (1955) ; Some movie reviews (1946-1956).

Dike, Donald A., 1920-1978, editor.

Macdonald, Dwight. writer of added commentary.

Zucker, David H., editor.

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