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...exactly Scarlett O'Hara, but then who is? The real Dixie woman, says Daniell, is doomed to madness, spinsterhood or suicide unless she conforms to one of a few revered stereotypes. There is, among others, the belle, charming and pampered to a fare-thee-well, groomed for little more than catching men: "If a woman behaved correctly-that is, in a properly manipulative and feminine way-she would receive the rewards of a doting (and successful) husband, comfortable house, beautiful children, and freedom from the need to work for a living." There is also the good ole girl, "realistic...
...prose is remarkably untortured, simply but elegantly stated. For her, Robert Lowell "learned to tame the apocalyptic to the eternal dailiness of life"; Sylvia Plath "would like, in distrust of mind, to trust nature, and yet she...refuses nature any honorable estate of its own"; of Frank O'Hara, "The wish not to impute significance has rarely been stronger in lyric poetry...
With Part Of Nature, Part Of Us, Helen Vendler confirms the idea that writing is as much a process of the critical faculties as the creative. Her reviews of Eliot, Lowell, Merrill, Penn Warren, Auden, Plath, O'Hara and many others are poems in themselves, or at least poetic testimonies to the major poets of our time. Vendler's collection ought to be enduring in the libraries of American literary criticism, not only for its intellectual depth, but its expression of excitement and comprehension...
Julia's neighbors fail to realize that Herman lives one step ahead of the bill collectors and the people who want to buy him out of his bakery shop. Alienated from the charmed world of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara by the South's rigid social hierarchy, Herman empathizes with Julia and her fellow Blacks. "I'm white," he says, "did it give me favors and friends?" The guilt that tortures him is more personal than Julia's; Herman feels he has betrayed his family, particularly his mother, with his love for a Black woman...
...Hara (Princeton...