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BLACKMUR
WILLIAM TROY:
SELECTED ESSAYS
Edited, with an Introduction
by Stanley
Edgar
Hyman
With a Memoir by Allen Tate
William Troy began to publish reviews and critical articles
in
the
mid-twenties, that great age of literature when Proust had just
been translated and
Finnegans Wake
was being written. His un–
compromising criticism was admired by older men of letters,
praised by his contemporaries and has influenced the younger
generations.
Troy's work covers a wide range of authors: Henry James, Virginia
Woolf, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Scott Fitzgerald, Stendhal,
Balzac, Thomas Mann, Shakespeare and many others. Antholo–
gists have continued to reprint his pieces over the years, but not
until now has a substantial collection of his writing appeared in
book form.
"... when confronted with a text, he analyzed it with a firm
sense both of its inherent meaning and of its cultural implications,
in a style which expresses seriousness of commitment precisely
and clearly. He was better than a seminal critic; he was a
usable one."-CHARLES T. SAMUELS,
The Nation
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