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From:American Writers, Retrospective Supplement 1Introduction WALT WHITMAN MAY be America’s most uneven great poet. There is general consensus that Leaves of Grass, Whitman’s gradually accreting collected poems, is better in its early incarnations than in its late...
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From:American Writers, Retrospective Supplement 1Introduction IT IS NOW possible to say of John Updike what he wrote about Vladimir Nabokov in his 1965 essay “Grand-Master Nabokov” collected in Assorted Prose: he is “the best writer of English prose at present...
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From:American Writers, Retrospective Supplement 1Introduction MELVILLE’S CAREER AS a literary artist began on a whaleship, a scene of appalling industrial exploitation and filth. Hunting down and killing whales with handheld weapons posed extreme dangers, and then...
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From:American Writers, Retrospective Supplement 1Introduction IN 1959 LIONEL Trilling, then one of America’s most prominent literary critics, spoke at a banquet given by Henry Holt and Company on the occasion of Robert Frost’s eighty-fifth birthday. After reviewing...
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From:American Writers, Retrospective Supplement 1Introduction “LIFE BEGAN FOR me,” Willa Cather once said, “when I ceased to admire and began to remember.” Her artistic power was also born when she moved from admiration to memory, but this was a long process. Cather...
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From:American Writers, Retrospective Supplement 1Introduction WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS was a physician in Rutherford, New Jersey, for more than forty years, until forced to retire by the heart problems that finally killed him in 1963 at the age of seventy-nine. But...
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From:American Writers, Retrospective Supplement 1Introduction “THE MYSTERY IN how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much,” bserves the title character of Eudora Welty’s The Optimist’s Daughter (1972). This mystery is at the heart of...
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From:American Writers, Retrospective Supplement 1EARLY ON THE morning of November 10, 1950, William Faulkner received a telephone call at Rowan Oak, his home in Oxford, Mississippi, telling him that he had been selected to receive the Nobel Prize for literature for...
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From:American Writers, Retrospective Supplement 1ONE IMAGE OF Emily Dickinson is found on T-shirts and coffee mugs and in the ever-growing number of studies of her life and work. She is seventeen, a student at a rigorous school for young women. No effort has been...
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From:American Writers, Retrospective Supplement 1IN DECEMBER 1940, after years of declining health and failing literary prospects, F. Scott Fitzgerald collapsed and died in the Hollywood apartment of Sheilah Graham, the gossip columnist he once, in a fit of pique,...
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From:American Writers, Retrospective Supplement 1ERNEST Hemingway ranks as the most famous of twentieth-century American writers: like Time magazine reported the news under Heroes rather than Books and went on to describe the author as "a globetrotting expert on...
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From:American Writers, Retrospective Supplement 1IN 1924, WHEN at the age of twenty-two Langston Hughes found himself broke in the Italian city of Genoa, he composed one of the most famous poetic statements in twentieth-century American literature, "I, Too": I,...