The
Armed
Vision
by
STANLEY EDGAR
HYMAN
A study
in the methods ofmodern
literary criticism
~
This book is an
examination of what such critics as Yvor
Winters, I. A. Richards, Kenneth·Burke,
Edmund Wilson, William Empson, Van
Wyck Brooks, R. P. Blackmur, T. S. Eliot,
Ouistopher
Caudwel~
Constance Rourke,
and many others have believed to be the
functions, subject matter, successes, and
failures of our most important writings.
Of enormous scope and brilliance, it is
the jroduct of an absolutely first-rate
min stocked with vast erudition and able
to spe.ak clearly, elegantly, and with wit.
Reading it gives one many hours of intel–
lectual stimulation of a rare sort and a
whole new set of approaches to reading
and to evaluation.
440
pages.
Seeds
of
Liberty
by
MAX
SAVELLE
The genesis
ofthe American mind
~Max
Savelle,
Professor of History at the University of
Wisconsin, -shows how, even before the
Revolution, a truly American civilization
-in which religion was humane; science
practical; philosophy pragmatic; society
democratic; and literature, music, and
painting expressive of a new American
spirit -could be distinguished from its
European heritage.
~
He calls on our
forefathers to speak for themselves, quot–
ing copiously from their less familiar but
most colorful writings. His book is ob–
jective, schola-rly, and fascinating proof
that in freedom-the seeds of liberty-is
the quintessence of Americanism. 636
pages. 93 illustrations.
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