Dream Barker and other poems
By JEAN VALENTINE
Volume 61 in the Yale Series of Younger Poets
"The themes are ancient and common, the proper themes of
lyric-youth, passion, loss, the human outrage, death. . . .
What renews them here is a quirkily singular intelligence, a
fusion of wit and tenderness, subserved by an unusual accuracy
of pitch and rightness of tone."-Dudley Fitts.
"It
is
love
poetry with a sort of mockery.
It
is almost a clinical statement,
yet there is rare beauty. She may
be
a
real
poet of our
time."-Padraic Colum,
Newsweek.
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Three Modern Satirists:
Waugh, Orwell, and Huxley
By STEPHEN JAY GREENBLATT
In a thought-provoking discussion, Mr. Greenblatt extracts some
basic characteristics of all satire, and shows that, despite their
different backgrounds, Waugh, Orwell, and Huxley demonstrate
that a "demonic spiral" or circle is central
to
almost all satire,
for it is the form on which are disposed the details of each
work.
$4.50
William Faulkner:
The Yoknapatawpha Country
By CLEANTH BROOKS
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certsinty that for very many years admirers of Faulkner will
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Faulkner will have to take Mr. Brooks into account ... the
best interpreter Faulkner has yet
had."-Times Literary
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$8.50
The Hidden God
Studies in Hemingway, Faulkner, Yeats, Eliot and Warren
By CLEANTH BROOKS
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-Saturday Review.
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Concepts of Criticism
By RENE WELLEK
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to
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to
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