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This collection makes the case for literary criticism as an informed, aggressive, personal, and often humorous response to writers and writing. These eloquent commentaries on English and American writers are arranged chronologically, beginning with Shakespeare, and proceed through the 19th and 20th centuries.
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English literature--History and criticism, American literature--History and criticism.
publication date
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1998
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PR99.P74 1998eb
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820.9
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English literature--History and criticism, American literature--History and criticism.
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Talking Back to Emily Dickinson and Other Essays
William H. Pritchard
University of Massachusetts Press AMHERST
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Copyright 1998 by William H. Pritchard All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 98-10322 ISBN 1-55849-138-4
Designed by Steve Dyer Set in Adobe Minion Printed and bound by Braun-Brumfield, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pritchard, William H. Talking back to Emily Dickinson, and other essays / William H. Pritchard. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-55849-138-4 (alk. paper) 1. English literatureHistory and criticism. 2. American literatureHistory and criticism. I. Title. PR99.P74 1998 820.9dc2198-10322 CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
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For Warner Berthoff and Roger Sale who talked back to me
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Preface
xi
Writing Well Is the Best Revenge
1
That Shakespeherian Rag
8
Burke's Great Melody
17
Responding to Blake
28
Wordsworth's "Resolution and Independence"
39
Byron in His Letters
48
My Bront Problem, and Yours?
60
Reading Hawthorne
70
Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
80
Talking Back to Emily Dickinson
86
Matthew Arnold's Permanence
98
What to Do with Carlyle?
105
Henry James on Tour
116
Yeats's First Fifty Years
126
T. S. Eliot: A Revaluation
136
Fabulous Monster: Ford Madox Ford as Literary Critic
164
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R. P. Blackmur's Last Song
182
Anthony Powell's Serious Comedy
192
Appreciating Kingsley Amis
207
Naipaul's Written World
217
Looking Back at Lessing
227
Mailer in Retrospect
236
Terry Southern: R.I.P.
247
Robert Penn Warren's Late Poems
252
Donald Hall's Poetry
262
Donald Davie as Critic of Modern Poets
272
The Last Man of Letters: Julian Symons
286
Name Index
297
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Acknowledgments
Except for "Writing Well Is the Best Revenge"a survey of some fierce back-talkings by one writer to anotherthe essays are arranged chronologically by subject, from Shakespeare to the present. They include two previously unprinted talks: "Wordsworth's 'Resolution and Independence' " was given at Denis Donoghue's Henry James Seminar in Practical Criticism, New York University, December 1995; ''Talking Back to Emily Dickinson'' was given at the second annual conference of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, Boston, September 1996.
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