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K. WIMSATr,
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The
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Fourteen
Studies in the Mean–
ing of Poetry
by
one of the
nation's leading literary critics,
and two preliminary essays writ–
ten in collaboration with Monroe C. Beardsley. The first section exposes
as fallacies some prevalent approaches to the critical object. Then Mr.
Wimsatt defends literature as a form of knowledge. A
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third group of essays deals with problems of style, and
lastly, the author discusses the broad relationships of
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literature to other arts, history, and Christian thinking.
Ch
I A B d
An Appraisal
of Beard's life
ar es . ear
and work by twelve outstand–
ing men who knew and ad-
HOWARD K. BEALE
mired him. Eric F. Goldman,
General Editor
the late Harold
J.
Laski,
Arthur W. Macmahon, and
George S. Counts discuss the personal side of Beard, while Max Lerner,
Luther Gulick, George Soule, Richard Hofstadter, Walton
Hamilton, Merle Curti, George R . Leighton, and Mr.
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Beale examine his influence in the fields of his activity.
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The One and the Many
A Bright Particular Faith
A Missionary of Old Pictures
The Second Tree from the Corner
First Painting of an Emerging Nation
The Perspectives of Science and the
Prospects of Men
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LOUIS KRONENBERGER
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER
FRANCIS STEEGMULLER
E. B. WHITE
JAMES THOMAS FLEXNER
ERNEST NAGEL
Poetry
DANIEL G. HOFFMAN, HOWARD MOSS, JOHN HALL WHEELOCK
Book Reviews
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