OXFORD BOOKS
Jules Laforgue
and the Ironic Inheritance
Winner of the MLA-Oxford Award
By WARREN RAMSEY.
The first book in English about the
late-nineteenth-century French writer, who, perhaps more than
any of his contemporaries, determined the course of modern
poetry, including that of Eliot, Pound and Crane. Mr. Ramsey
discusses his life and his important works, and shows how the
'ironic inheritance' Laforgue left continues as a vital force in
the literature of today.
Illustrated.
$5.00
The Mirror and the Lamp
Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition
By M. H. ABRAMS.
An
analysis of the various trends in English
literary criticism at the beginning of the 19th century, viewed
against the background of critical writing from Aristotle to the
present day. It includes not only such giants as Hazlitt, Words–
worth, and Coleridge, but also many lesser known though boldly
original thinkers who anticipated basic ideas of Freud and
I.
A. Richards. Especially rewarding is the author's attention to
the various metaphors critics have used to define art.
$7.50
Purity of Diction in English Verse
By DONALD DAVIE.
A partisan of 18th-century poetry analyzes
its virtues of clarity, plainness and economy, and discusses the
advantages and limitations of a pure diction. He compares the
Augustan idiom with that of the Romantics in a study which
will be of interest to everyone concerned with the use of words
and the nature of poetry.
$3.00
Modern Russian Literature
From Chekhov to the Present
By MARC SLONIM,
author of
The Epic
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Russian Literature.
"A big, comprehensive guidebook to the writing-mainly of this
century-in which the Russian mind is revealed and in terms of
which it may be examined. The coverage is wide; literally
hundreds of writers and thousands of books are discussed . . :
all of them with the quiet and precise authority which suggests
both firm scholarship and warm human understanding."-RICHARD
SULLIVAN,
Chicago Tribune.
$6.80
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