Edward Mendelson
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
An exploration of how seven of the greatest English novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries portray the essential experiences of life. For Mendelson--a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University--these classic novels tell life stories that are valuable to readers who are thinking about the course of their own lives. Looking beyond theories to the individual intentions of the authors and taking into consideration...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"One of contemporary America's leading critics and scholars offers a provocative reassessment of the lives and work of eight influential twentieth- century American writers: Lionel Trilling Dwight Macdonald W.H. Auden William Maxwell Saul Bellow Alfred Kazin Norman Mailer Frank O'Hara Drawing on newly published letters and diaries, Edward Mendelson explores the responses of these writers, very public figures all, to major historical events--among...
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
This collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems.
Author
Publisher
Princeton Univ Pr
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
More than one hundred separate essays, reviews, introductions, and lecures, as well as a questionnaire (complete with his own answers) about the reader's fantasy version of Eden. Also are included previously unpublished and little known works. The introduction by Edward Mendelson places the essays in biographical and historical context, and the extensive textual notes explain obscure contemporary references and provide an often-amusing history of...
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