Matthew
Arnold
Lionel TrillinB
A reissue of the definitive Arnold
biography, first published in 1939
by
W. W.
Norton and since out
of print.
"A credit to American criti–
cism."-Edmund
Wilson.
"One of the best works of
historical criticism produced
in this
country."-William
Phillips, Partisan Review.
"The full and final word on
Arnold for our generation."
-W. H.
Auden.
"Deserves to be called won–
derful." -
Edward Sack ville–
West.
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M*FFL*N Fellowship application
blank. He was delighted. "It's only
an
application,"
I tell
him,
but he
smiles gently as though he knows
better, and obviously feels that they
wouldn't even send me the blank
if they didn't feel I had a chance
of being chosen. I don't want this
illogical reasoning to be contagious.
Nevertheless, we are both impressed
by the envelope and for a moment,
on my way upstairs, (the book has
conveniently completed itself, I
have acquired an immoderate poise
and can drink cocktails all even–
ing without becoming melancholy)
I see the contents six months
hence:
"We wish to inform you that your
novel has been selected for the
1948 H**GHT*N M*FFL*N Fel–
lowship Award."
(Here they suggest that I fly at
once to New York to be presented
with the money. An error, since I
know it is paid out piecemeal by
the month, but I want all that
money at once so that I can feel
my whole body relax-what rigor
insecurity gives us-and to buy, I
am afraid, one superb black dress
in which to meet J ean Stafford,
J ames Agee, and see all the films in
the Museum of Modern Art.)
"May we add that we have rarely
(or ... never?) read a manuscript
which depicted so brilliantly the
serious problems of our time."
Even I cannot accept this.
It
is,
unfortunately, not my book they
