208 Pages
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Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
106 Pages
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Routledge
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In this new volume, Russell Fraser assembles fourteen twentieth-century writers he judges "worth keeping." All were famous in their time, but many outlived it, enduring an eclipse that Fraser intends this book to dispel. Each of the authors differs in background and in the kinds of writing practiced, and while together they do not constitute a modern canon, Fraser persuasively presents them as a... Read more
1. Revenge on Oscar Wilde, 2. J. M. Synge’s Magic Mirror, 3. Painting by Numbers in Paul Valéry, 4. The Poetry of Eugenio Montale, 5. The Prose of Osip Mandelstam, 6. Edwin Muir’s Other Eden, 7. George Mackay Brown and the Orkney Islands, 8. My Two Masters, 9. Delmore Schwartz and the Death of the Poet, 10. Austin Warren: American Baroque, 11. Francis Fergusson: The Critic as Janus, 12. Lucky Jim as I Remember Him, 13. James Dickey’s Dear God of the Wildness of Poetry.
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Russell Fraser
