Word: menckenism
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...romanticists as Scott and Dickens were "dead corpses which retain their forms perfectly in the coffin, but crumble to dust as soon as exposed to air." Second Deadly Silas. Howells' novels were written in a prose that both friends such as Twain and detractors such as H. L. Mencken admitted to be superb; and they were written about subjects that mattered-the hardening caste strata in U.S. society, the pain of divorce, the wrongs of a laissez-faire economy. Yet before his death in 1920, with the realism he had preached unshakably in vogue, he wrote to his friend...
...liberal writers Aaron talks about were men thoroughly convinced that the Depression had finished off capitalism. They had tired of the stale Progressive dogmas of the '20's, and the reality of class antagonisms was an enormous shock to them. Also, as Bohemians, readers of Veblen and Mencken, they hated the men and the ideas that dominated American society. Most, of course, satisfied personal needs in joining the party. But, as Leslie Fiedler has pointed out, a radical movement is not to be explained by adding up the pathologies of its individual members. It was not the writers who were...
...Mencken on Music, a selection by Louis Cheslock, and Letters of H. L. Mencken, a selection by Guy J. Forgue. The '20's most gifted student of the ridiculous is at his most eloquent and outrageous in these two well-chosen samplers...
...Mencken on Music, a selection by Louis Cheslock, and Letters...
...Mencken, a selection by Guy J. Forgue. The great American iconoclast of the '20s plays at two of his favorite roles-music critic and man of letters-in these excellent samplers...