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...substitute for thinking. His wit borrowed its main punch from his universal spleen and political bias. (Said Macaulay, who loved only his sisters: "There are not ten people in the world whose deaths would spoil my dinner.") Most of the writers and poets he demolished-Byron, Shelley, Keats, Thackeray, Gibbon,. Wordsworth, Tom Paine, Herman Melville, to name only a few- have long survived him. And his History, while still exciting for its colorful narrative, is not noted for its accuracy...
...publisher was as "sick of his writings as I am of him." But before he was fired Poe had skyrocketed the circulation from 600 to 5,500, and the Messenger had become the most famed Southern literary magazine of all time. With such famed foreign contributors as Longfellow, Thackeray, John Quincy Adams, it survived until June 1864. (By that time the subscription price had jumped from $5 to $15 a year, Confederate money.) But when its printers were called to defend Richmond, the Southern Literary Messenger suspended publication...
...vigorously by former. Freudians. But modern novelists have followed him like children after the Pied Piper. His influence has been the greatest single factor in determining the course of modern fiction, and future literary historians may well refer to Joyce and Mann as great Freudians in the way that Thackeray and George Eliot are now called great Victorians. Freud has exercised a greater literary influence than any other living writer. His 35 volumes are packed with literary allusions, with shrewd criticisms on poetry and fiction, with case histories that read like novels; but critics have not investigated his standing...
...farm hand, hod carrier, caretaker, chemist and painter's apprentice, itinerant newspaperman. At Stanford University off & on for six years, he treated it as a sort of public library where he read only what took his fancy: physics, biology, philosophy, history. Indifferent to most fiction, he thinks Thackeray passable, cannot stomach Proust because he "wrote his sickness, and I don't like sick writing." He is dead set against publicity, photographs, speeches, believes "they do you damage." Now living in Los Gatos, Calif, since publication of his best-selling Of Mice and Men* (167,000 copies) Mr. Steinbeck...