Vol. 16 No. 2 1949 - page 114

JUST PUBLISHED
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Critiques
AND
Essays
IN CRITICISM 1920-1948
~~~
Representing the
Achievement of Modern Brit–
ish and American Critics
ROBERT WOOSTER
STALLMAN
With Foreword by
CLEANTH BROOKS
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ESSAYS from the best writ–
ings of those critics who have
revolutionized our concepts of
poetry and criticism - including
T. S. Eliot, I. A. Richards, Yvor
Winters, Allen Tate, R. P. Black–
mur, Edmund Wilson, Cleanth
Brooks, Kenneth Burke, John
Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn
Warren, William Empson and F. R.
Leavis. Among works of the great
British critics represented are sev–
eral not before available in books
in the United States. Eliot's
The
Social Function of PQ8try
makes its
American debut in these pages.
These essays
"provide more than a
mere sampling of modern criticism,"
writes Cleanth Brooks in his Fore–
word.
"If they show a real diversity,
they also suggest a unity, making a
collective comment on the general
problems of criticism!'
Compiled
with careful intent, the book sheds
light on the modern critical pro–
cedures which, by limiting the scope
of criticism to the literature itself,
have illuminated its art.
IN FOUR PARTS:
Nature and Function
of Poetry; How to Criticize the Work;
Method. and Problems; Kinds of
Critics and Criticism.
The most comprehensive and valuable
bibliograpby of significant writings in
modern criticism.
590 Pages,
$5.00
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CONTRIBUTORS
GEORGE BARBAROW has written
fifm criticism for Politics and other
periodicals.
MARIUS BEWLEY has written on
art and literature for Scrutiny,
View, and Commentary.
HAROLD BROWN is a young com–
poser who lives in New York City.
OLIVER EVANS teaches English at
the University of Nebraska.
JAMES MERRILL is a young poet
who is now a member of the faculty
at Bard College.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR, a native
of Georgia who attended the Uni–
versity of Iowa, is now at work on
her first novel.
Henry Bamford Parkes, professor of
history at New York University, is
the author of "The American
Ex–
perience" and other books.
The frontispiece by Richard Pou–
sette-Dart is reproduced through
the courtesy of the Betty Parsons
Ga"ery.
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