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Title

A Dial miscellany. Edited with an introd. by William Wasserstrom.

Publication

[Syracuse] Syracuse University Press, 1963.

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Details

Additional Authors

Wasserstrom, William

Description

xxx, 372 pages illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Anthology of poetry, fiction and reportage selected from the influential journal of the 1920s, "The Dial."

Uniform Title

Dial (Chicago, Ill.)

Subject

• Literature > Collections
• Newspapers
• Anthologies
• Journaux
• anthologies
• newspapers
• Literature

Genre/Form

Collections.

Contents

• Poetry, our first national art / James Oppenheim -- The spirit of the old hotel / John Gould Fletcher -- Renoir, an appreciation / Arbert C. Barnes -- Americanism and localism / John Dewey -- Mrs. Maecenas / Kenneth Burke -- Cock and harlequin / Jean Cocteau ; tr. Rollo H. Myers -- "Madame a sa tour monte ..." / Louis Aragon ; tr. Gilbert Seldes -- An episode / D.H. Lawrence -- A bird's-eye view of E.A. Robinson / Amy Lowell -- A study of language (review of Language, by Edward Sapir) / A.L. Kroeber -- Off the shoals (review of The enormous room, by E.E. Cummings) / John Dos Passos -- The man with the flower in his mouth / Luigi Pirandello ; tr. Arthur Livingston -- Model Americans (review of Americans, by Stuart P. Sherman) / D.H. Lawrence -- A long way round to Nirvana / G. Santayana -- The cavern of silence / Miguel de Unamuno ; tr. Louis How -- Well moused, lion (review of Harmonium, by Wallace Stevens) / Marianne Moore -- A note on Hawaiian poetry / Padraic Colum -- In a thicket / Glenway Wescott -- Dr Freud on art / Clive Bell -- Marianne Moore (review of Observations, by Marianne Moore) / William Carlos Williams -- A Christmas story / Feodor Dostoevsky ; tr. C.M. Grand -- Spring flight (review of The great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald) / Gilbert Seldes -- Mina Loy / Yvor Winters -- The meaning of meaning (review of The meaning of meaning, by Ogden and Richards) / Bertrand Russell.
• Under the roof / Seán O'Faoláin -- A "logic" of history (review of The decline of the West, by Oswald Spengler) / Kenneth Burke -- Gerard Hopkins / I.A. Richards -- Literature, science, and dogma (review of Science and poetry, by I.A. Richards) / T.S. Eliot -- Apparition in early autumn / Robert Hillyer -- A glance at the soul of Japan / Paul Claudel ; tr. Lillian Chamberlain -- On the shore / Albert Halper -- Retreat (review of For Lancelot Andrewes : essays on style and order, by T.S. Eliot) / Conrad Aiken -- The lawyers know too much / Carl Sandburg -- To love impuissant / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- A memory of the players in a mirror at midnight / James Joyce -- Picking and choosing / Marianne Moore -- The fifth Canto / Ezra Pound -- Instructions for a ballet / Maxwell Bodenheim -- Revue / Wallace Stevens -- Apology of genius / Mina Loy -- Hibernal / Babette Deutsch -- Poem / E.E. Cummings -- First communion / Djuna Barnes -- Full moon / William Carlos Williams -- Mo-ti / Lola Ridge -- Three Hawaiian poems / Padraic Colum -- Storm centre / Genevieve Taggard -- The hollow men / T.S. Eliot -- Those of Lucifer / Malcolm Cowley -- Nocturne / Archibald MacLeish -- To Brooklyn Bridge / Hart Crane -- Among the schoolchildren / William Butler Yeats -- Four poems / Louis Zukofsky -- Death in moonlight / Stanley J. Kunitz.
• London letter (October, 1921) / T.S. Eliot -- Modern art (December, 1921) / Henry McBride -- Editor's comment, on a letter from Vernon Squires, University of North Dakota -- Musical chronicle (January, 1922) / Paul Rosenfeld -- Paris letter (June, 1922) / Ezra Pound -- Dublin letter (October, 1922) / John Eglinton -- Editor's comment, on The Dial's award to T.S. Eliot -- The theatre (May, 1923) / Edmund Wilson, Jr. -- Italian letter (May, 1923) / Raffaello Piccoli -- Editor's comment, on The literary review -- German letter (October, 1923) / Thomas Mann -- Modern art (November, 1923) / Henry McBride -- Musical chronicle (November, 1923) / Paul Rosenfeld -- Russian letter (February, 1924) / Alexander Eliasberg -- Spanish letter (October, 1924) / José Ortega y Gasset -- Editors' comment, "The dial is an intellectual sewer" -- Briefer mention, book reviews -- Paris letter (June, 1926) / Paul Morand -- Modern art (May, 1926) / Henry McBride -- Musical chronicle (April, 1927) / Paul Rosenfeld -- The theatre (January, 1928) / Gilbert Seldes -- London letter (March, 1928) / Raymond Mortimer -- Paris letter (April, 1929) / Paul Morand.

LCCN

63019726

OCLC

• ocm00263273
• 263273
• SCSB-312105

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library