NEW FROM YALE
CoUe'cting Evidence
by Hugh Seidman
This winning volume in the 1969 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is
alive with energizing contradictions: It combines dryness with vehemence,
order with obsessiveness, knowledge with terror, In the words of Stanley
Kunih, the new judge of the annual Yale Competition, "Seidman 's yearning
for form is matched by his gravitation toward chaos, He makes me think
of someone battering his way out of the cellar of a computer factory, raging
for a new life, but still tormented by desire, pursued by the old furies."
Bright Particular Sllar
The Life and Times of Charlotte Cushman
by Joseph Leach
$5.00 (paper $1.75)
Making full use of diaries, letters, memoirs, and newspaper clippings, Mr.
'Leach presents not only a colorful portrayal of the pains and pleasures of a
theatrical career a century ago but also a telling commentary on the
country that produced and adored such thunderous talents for a time and
then cast them from memory. Fascinating vignettes of the cities and play–
house audiences Miss Cushman set out to capture are interwoven with skillful
depictions of her rivals for stage fame and of her eminent friends outside the
theatre , including Emerson , the Carlyles and Brownings, Whitman, and William
H. Seward. "... a masterpiece of the biographer's art."-Publishers' W ee kly.
Beyond Formalism
Literary Essays, 1958-1970
by Geoffrey H. Hartman
$12.50
This cohesive harvesting of essays by one of America 's foremost younger
critics encompasses a wide variety of topics yet is consistently marked by an
informed concern for the richness of particular texts. Blending t he broader
emphases of literary theory and history with the more pragmatic and dis–
continuous tasks of criticism, Mr. Hartman restores the power of the balanced
textual imagination, which too often has been bewitched by t he thrill of
speculative patterns or the particular pleasures of exegesis. The reconciliation
of opposing tendencies is perhaps the central quality of his unique compre–
hension of literature.
$ 12.50
Discriminlations
Further Concepts of Criticism
by Rene Wellek
Ranging over a wide selection of American, English, French, Italian, and
Russian texts, Mr. Wellek displays his characteristic concern with the sharpness
of the critic's and historian 's tools as well as his brood comparative perspec–
tive. He analyzes some of the most widely discussed problems of literary
theory and aesthetics, including the definitions of Classicism and Symbolism,
and devotes special atention to the scope and history of comparative
literature.
$1 0.00
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