Word: essays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went broke going to the wars and who died intestate, without visitors, in a Home. But now the belated floral tributes of highbrow attention have begun to come in. T. S. Eliot has written an introduction to a selection of his verse, and Edmund Wilson wrote a famous essay in which he proved that Kipling waved the flag because of something nasty he saw in the woodshed. Kipling's latest and best biographer, British Author C. E. Carrington, mildly remarks of his subject that "to this day he makes men lose their tempers, a sure proof of his importance...
...storming a brash, rebellious youngster fresh from a Minnespolis high school, who proceeded to impress many of these men almost as much as they impressed him, and to embark on a career which was already becoming legend before be had graduated. In his sophomore year be submitted a course essay on "Romantic Hellenism" to Irving Babbitt, who liked it so much that he encouraged him to enter it in the Bowdoin Prize competition. He not only won that but saw it published soon after by the Harvard University Press as The Broken Column. At the age of nineteen, Harry Levin...
...couple of years later, when T. S. Eliot was lecturing at Harvard, Theodore Spencer showed him a Levin essay on the metaphysical poets which Eliot liked so much that he decided to publish it in his influential literary magazine, The Criterion...
...present character of student motivation, the makeup of the faculty, and the University's financial state. Nonetheless, the committee submitted a report, approved later by the faculty, which called for many of Griswold's specific recommendations: a two-year reading list, auditing lectures suggested by advisers, and a senior essay project climaxed by oral and written examination as well as a now Divisional Honors program for outstanding scholars...
Theodore Dreisser's depictions of that same suffering, Alfred Kazin asserts in his effective essay defending the novelist, was rejected by priggish "elderly virgins of the newspapers." Kazin's thesis that Dreiser has been the victim of vacillating American literary taste, is well-argued and convincing...