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SELECTED ESSAYS OF DELMORE SCHWARTZ
Edited
by
Donald A. Dike and David H. Zucker
With an Appreciation
by
Dwight Macdonald
A shining light of American literature in the 1930's, D elmore Schwartz
continued on the path of excellence right up to his death in 1966 at the
age of 52. This collection of essays and reviews represents his variegated
career as poet, essayist, teacher, lecturer, fictioneer, and editor, and in–
cludes pieces on the modern poet, on individuals such as D os Passos,
H emingway, Faulkner, L ardner, Yeats, Hardy, Pound, Eliot, Auden,
Stevens, W. C. Fields, Mary Pickford, and Edmund Wilson, and considera–
tions of philosophies and trends in modern culture.
LC:76-123357
524
pages
$10.00
THE CAVE AND THE SPRING
Essays on Poetry
A. D. Hope
A. D. H ope, the outstanding contemporary poet, has brought together
his most important critical writings on the subject of poetry in this volume,
which takes its title from the cave and the spring of the Muses. Hope's
central critical concerns throughout the book are with analyzing the tech–
nique of writing verse and with distinguishing the beautiful in poetry from
the merely competent. In so doing, he ranges over a variety of aspects of
poetry. In separate essays he closely examines the art of Coleridge, Mar–
lowe, and Dryden. Elsewhere he underlines the dangers of writers being
"taken over" by the universities, and in yet another work he explores
the currently unfashionable question of the proper subjects of poetry.
LC:72-1l6030
186
pages
CLoth $7.50
Paper $1.95
FOUR FACES BY GEORGES FEYDEAU
Translated and with an Introduction
by
Norman R. Shapiro
In this collection of four comedies Norman R. Shapiro offers the American
reader a chance to make the acquaintance of the French playwright
Georges Feydeau (1 862-1921 ). After a generation of relative neglect,
Feydeau's theater enjoyed, in both France and England, a rebirth of
popularity sparked by the entrance of his
Feu La mere de Madame
into the
repertory of the Comedie Franc;aise in 1941.
The plays offered in this volume represent the major stages of
Feydeau's career.
Par la {enetre,
a modest one-act effort dating from 1880,
was his first comedy,
Le Mariage de Baril/on,
produced a decade later,
shows him well on the way to becoming the master of mad imbroglio, a
talent that comes to full flower with
Un FiL
a
La patte
( 1894) and its
successors. The last play in this collection, On
purge Bebe
( 1910), repre–
sents a change from the complex, jack-in-the-hox constructions of his
full-length farces. It is one of a group of five less flamboyant but more
intense one-act plays of conjugal strife, which were to mark the end of
his career.
LC:78-1 25164
400 pages
$12.00
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