Word: essay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anthology, New Directions in Prose and Poetry ($2), including a translation of a famed essay by Jean Cocteau on the Painter Chirico, four good poems by Wallace Stevens on the Idea of Man, suave Surrealist stories by Montagu O'Reilly, fantasies by Henry Miller, incorrigible author of the more-than-Rabelaisian Tropic of Cancer...
...time the Congress adjourned the delegates had listened to some 24 hours of speechmaking, essay-reading and discussion in its various departments, had chosen John Dos Passos' The Big Money, Joseph Freeman's An American Testament, Carl Sandburg's The People, Yes, John Howard Lawson's Marching Song and Van Wyck Brooks' The Flowering of New England as the most valuable works of the past year. To Gone With The Wind (1,350,000 copies printed) they gave one vote...
...famous essay on "Self Reliance", you may recall, Emerson says, "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." If you will be an active participant in the affairs of modern life and pass unruffled through an unruly crowd, you must fight hard indeed for his "independence of solitude." To attain it is denied, perhaps, to most of us but to approximate it at least...
Describing the winning thesis, a member of the Committee yesterday termed it a "scholarly, urbane literary essay, showing Lamb's interest in Browne, their similar temperaments that there was something skin in the souls of both...
Three days later in his west side Manhattan hotel, weak from influenza and nervous collapse, aged Critic Henderson stopped writing an essay on Pianist Josef Hofmann, placed a .38 revolver in his mouth and with one bullet completed the ending of an epoch in U. S. letters...