Twentieth-Century Literature in Retrospect (Harvard English Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674914244 ISBN 13: 9780674914247

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1971

Synopsis

The sixteen essays in this second volume of Harvard English Studies explore and reevaluate the work of twentieth-century writers and critics from Joyce and James to Iris Murdoch and Mailer, from Yeats and Eliot to critics and poets of the present generation. Part I, “Writers and Critics,” includes among other essays an exploration of erotic imagination in Dubliners and a study of Dickensian motifs in Murdoch’s London novels. Other articles deal with the present standing of Yeats’s and Eliot’s poetry, the prosodies of free verse, and the role of the writer in modern fiction. Part II, “Twentieth Century Valuations Reconsidered” assesses some of the influential twentieth-century critical positions on Shakespeare, the pastoral, Donne, the metaphysical poets, Milton, Pope, and Wordsworth. Distinguished contributors include Josephine Miles, Frank Kermode, F. R. Leavis, and Christopher Ricks.

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From the Back Cover

The essays collected here are divided into two groups: the first, concerned mainly with poets and novelists who have reached an almost canonical status; the second, dealing with earlier writers whose position has been radically altered through interpretation and criticism of the past forty years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0674914244
• ISBN 13: 9780674914247
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 363
• Editor: Brower Reuben Arthur