Oxford University Press
The New Poets
AMERICAN AND BRITISH POETRY SINCE WORLD WAR II
By
M. L. ROSENTHAL,
New York University.
This book represents the
first attempt to characterize in any real critical depth the whole range of
both British and American poetry since World War II. It raises the ques–
tion, as Mr. Rosenthal says, "whether a body of poetry of sufficiently
independent character has arisen to warrant a change in our conception
of what modern poetry is."
Cloth,
$6.50.
A Galaxy Book,
GB
188,
paper, $1.95
F.
Scott FitzE,erald
THE LAST LAOCOON
By
ROBERT SKLAR,
University of Michigan.
"F.
SCOTT FITZ–
GERALD: THE LAST LAOCOON is not so much an introduction to
Fitzgerald
as
a book for those who thought they already knew him. Sklar
has written a sustained and revealing study of an author whose innate
seriousness led both to success and torment. The book is as important as its
subject." NORMAN HOLMES PEARSON, Yale University
$8.50
The LmaE,ination of an Insurrection
DUBLIN, EASTER 1916
By
WILLIAM IRWIN THOMPSON,
Massachusetts Institute of Tech–
nology.
Here is a study that explores the interrelationship of the Irish
Literary Renaissance and the Irish nationalist movement. The author
begins with a history of the Irish Literary Renaissance, from the eighteenth–
century investigations into the Celtic past up to the early twentieth century.
He continues with a complete account of the Easter Rising. The inter–
action of poetry and history is shown
in
the third section of the book
where the author discusses the work of W. B. Yeats, George Russell,
and Sean O'Casey.
$6.75
French Novelists of Today
By
HENRI PEYRE,
Yale University.
Professor Peyre's
The Contemporary
French Novel,
published in
1955,
became a standard work on modern
literature. But much has happened in French fiction since the mid-fifties.
Some figures such as Proust, Malraux, and Green have grown in stature;
others, such as Gide, are now viewed more critically; the existentialist
novel is in decline ; and the "new" novelists of the fifties have been chal–
lenged by even "newer" writers. These changes, and many others, are
reflected in this revised and expanded edition of an important book in
French studies.
Cloth,
$10:00.
A Galaxy Book,
GB
189,
paper, $2.95
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