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Yeats
By
HAROLD BLOOM,
Yale University.
"This book is a study in depth of Yeats
as poet, playwright, and visionary, not to mention the incurable
R~mantic
he
remained all his life however hard he sought to deny the soft impeachment. . . .
The major poems are analyzed with strong emphasis on the apocalyptic element.
. . . a penetrating study."-JOHN BARKHAM,
Saturday Review Syndicate.
"Bloom's a brilliant scholar. His argument ... will clearly ... cause a stir among
Yeats factions here and elsewhere."-Kirkus
Reviews
$12.50
John Donne
A LIFE
By
R. C. BALD;
edited by
WESLEY MILGATE,
Australian National University,
Canberra.
"Bald's life of Donne ... is a monument of painstaking research and
judicious handling of evidence. . . . As a standard life of Donne, based on
meticulous documentation, this will certainly supersede previous attempts, and
correct the earlier biographers' many mistakes."-PAUL DELANY,
N.Y. Tipus
Book Review.
"It will remain the fundamental biographical study on which
all
subsequent attempts to interpret Donne's life and work will securely rest."–
HELEN GARDNER,
New Statesman.
9
plates.
$15.00
The Modern Spirit
ESSAYS ON THE CONTINUITY OF NINETEENTH
AND TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE
By
ROBERT LANGBAUM,
University of Virginia.
These ten recent essays re–
flect Professor Langbaum's continuing concern with what constitutes the modern
in literature and life. Moving from Wordsworth through Tennyson and Browning
to the latest novelists and poets of our own time, they penetrate deeply into
individual works, and show the growth of interest in questions of self, in myth,
and in the tragicomic attitude that accompanies the mythical view of life.
Cloth,
$6.50.
A Galaxy Book,
GB 320,
paper,
$1.95
The Art of the
American Folk Preacher
By
BRUCE A. ROSENBERG,
Pennsylvania State University.
"It is a fine piece
of work.... He keeps the background of theory in the oral formulaic techniques
of Old English and Homeric Greek always before us, and widely differentiates
the aesthetic standards for judging each tradition. This is an important study,
with seminal implications for literary criticism, folklore, religion, 'black studies,'
and even rock music."-DONALD K. FRY, State University of New York,
Stony Brook
$8.50
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