I
The Armed
i
Vision
by
STANLEY EDGAR HYMAN
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A study in the methods
of modern literary criticism
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This book is an examination
of what such critics as Yvor Winters,
I.
A. Richards, Kenneth
Burke, Edmund Wilson, William Empson, VanWyck Brooks,
R. P. Blackmur, T. S. Eliot, Christorher CaudweU, Constance
Rourke, and many others have beheved to be the functions,
subject matter, successes, and failures of our most important
writings. Of enormous scope and brilliance, it is the product of
an absolutely first-rate mind stocked with vast erudition and
able to speak clearly, elegantly, and with wit. Reading it gives
one many hours of intellectual stimulation of a·rare sort and a
whole new set of approaches to reading and to evaluation.
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"Constantly touches one with
its youthful vigor. Hyman's style is straightforward and use–
ful and communicates his intense interest in what he is saying
and his desire for intelligence, without distraction. This book
is exciting from beginning to end. It is about today without
politics."-WALLACE STEVENS
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"There
is
no doubt that the
subject has given full scope to a first-rate critical talent."
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