The American Classics: A Personal EssayYale University Press, 1 de out. de 2008 - 304 páginas How is a classic book to be defined? How much time must elapse before a work may be judged a “classic”? And among all the works of American literature, which deserve the designation? In this provocative new book Denis Donoghue essays to answer these questions. He presents his own short list of “relative” classics--works whose appeal may not be universal but which nonetheless have occupied an important place in our culture for more than a century. These books have survived the abuses of time—neglect, contempt, indifference, willful readings, excesses of praise, and hyperbole. |
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... Poetry An Honoured Guest: New Essays on W. B. Yeats (editor, with J. R. Mulryne) The Ordinary Universe: Soundings in ... Poets (editor) The Sovereign Ghost: Studies in Imagination Poems of R. P. Blackmur (editor) Ferocious Alphabets The ...
... poetry is a classic, but not what Eliot calls a universal classic: We may speak justly enough of the poetry of Goethe as constituting a classic, because of the place which it occu- pies in its own language and literature. Yet, because ...
... poets , but that the Aeneid and The Divine Comedy are the works , within the European tradition , which em- body most comprehensively the particular qualities of the classic . " There is no classic in English , " Eliot says . Not that ...
... Poetry ; D. H. Lawrence , Novelist ; The Living Principle ; and Anna Karenina and Other Essays . He wanted readers to approach modern poetry with Eliot and Pound in view as the crucial poets and Hopkins ( rather than Tennyson or ...
... poetry recog- nizes Hardy as incomparably the greatest modern poet . Harold Bloom has argued — or at least declared that American poetry comes out of Emerson's overcoat and that the crucial poets are Whitman , Stevens , and whatever later ...
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3 The Scarlet Letter | 101 |
4 Walden | 137 |
5 Leaves of Grass | 177 |
6 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | 217 |
Afterword | 251 |
Notes | 263 |
Acknowledgment | 281 |
Index | 283 |