Critical RersRectives.
THE NEW OXFORD BOOK
OF AMERICAN VERSE
Edited by Richard Ellmann
A magnificent anthology that reflects the full breadth, depth and vitality
of poetry in America-more than 800 works by poets ranging from
Emerson, Poe and Whitman; to Frost, Eliot and Stevens; to Allen
Ginsberg, Adrienne Rich and John Ashbery. $17.50
THE TRIUMPH OF THE NOVEL
Dickens. Dostoevsky. and Faulkner
Albert
J.
Guerard
In this boldly ambitious work, Guerard explores the rich
anti-realist
tradition in the novel through the works of three writers who shared a
fascination with the fantastic that can be found within and behind
everyday reality. $13.95
THOUGHT, WORDS. AND
CREATIVITY
Art and Thought in Lawrence
F.R. Leavis
Illustrating the arguments of his most recent work,
The Liuing Principle:
"English"
as a
Discipline of Thought.
Leavis analyzes DH Lawrence as a
thinker and as an artist, offering perceptive readings of
The Plumed
Serpent, Women
in
Loue, The Captain 's Doll
and
The Rainbow. $10.00
ANNA AKHMATOVA
A
Poetic Pilgrimage
Amanda Haight
This first biography of the great 20th-century Russian poet traces
Akhmatova's growth as a woman, and as a writer concemed with
giving voice to the woman's viewpoint in a culture where women's voices
were seldom heard. With 30 photographs, $10.00.
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