Research Catalog

Title

Moderns worth keeping / Russell Fraser.

Author

Fraser, Russell A.

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2005.

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Details

Description

xi, 195 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"In this new volume, Russell Fraser assembles fourteen twentieth-century writers he judges "worth keeping." All were famous in their time, but many outlived it, enduring an eclipse that Fraser intends this book to dispel. Each of the authors differs in background and in the kinds of writing practiced, and while together they do not constitute a modern canon, Fraser persuasively presents them as a group distinguished by a more than ordinary affiliation for language." "The world was livelier for these writers' presence, and what they left us still gives satisfaction. This heterogeneous group may be said to be our saving remnant. In a time of coarsened feeling, its members possess in high degree the ability to discriminate, seeing acutely, and inspiring feeling where it was dead. Their function is therapeutic, even restorative for the life of letters. To give them a hearing is the principal purpose of the book."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism
• Authors > 20th century > Biography

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

1. Revenge on Oscar Wilde -- 2. J. M. Synge's magic mirror -- 3. Painting by numbers in Paul Valery -- 4. The poetry of Eugenio Montale -- 5. The prose of Osip Mandelstam -- 6. Edwin Muir's other Eden -- 7. George Mackay Brown and the Orkney Islands -- 8. My two masters -- 9. Delmore Schwartz and the death of the poet -- 10. Austin Warren : American baroque -- 11. Francis Fergusson : the critic as Janus -- 12. Lucky Jim as I remember him -- 13. James Dickey's dear God of the wildness of poetry.

ISBN

0765802848 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2005043700

OCLC

• ocm58843243
• SCSB-5192398

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries