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...solid, almost primitive spokesman of the American people, whose novels are a grandiose articulation of their own vague, subterranean but insistent attitudes towards the puzzles of human life, and whose writing absorbed the textures, aromas, frustrations, daydreams and tragedies of America with an amplitude unequaled by any writer since Whitman...
After Franklin, American culture fell back, except for Whitman and Poe, while the Americans invaded the west. Right now Americans are trying culture once more. American music, buildings and books lack the refinement of older civilizations, but it is because the people are immature and it is impossible to demand intellectual penetration as yet. We are older than the North Americans, much older. . . . [But] culture comes after wealth. . . . Although there is no Goethe, no Shakespeare, no Kant, no Velasquez on the American scene, thousands of people are working hard, trying...
...Yorker, which pokes fun at other people's marathon sentences in its "Nonstop Sentence Derby," got a new entry from its own stable: New Yorker Book Critic Edmund Wilson. Reviewing The Times of Melville and Whitman, Wilson began a sentence: "The fluent presentation of all this-." By the time he came to rest on a period, Wilson had used 384 words, 61 lines of type, five sets of quotation marks and 26 commas...
Among books by U.S. critics were Van Wyck Brooks's mellow The Times of Melville and Whitman; Edmund Wilson's jarringly narrow-minded Europe Without Baedeker; Lloyd Morris' genre pieces in Postscript to Yesterday. Welcome relief from the weedlike academicism that is choking American criticism were V. S. Pritchett's urbane, pleasant but acute essays on English writers in The Living Novel...
Newest members of the honorary scholastic society at the 'Cliffe are Eleanor M. Millard of Whitman Hall and Chicago, Marjory A. Reynolds of Briggs Hall and Lexington, Kentucky, Marilyn R. Starkman of Bertram Hall and Wakefield, and Ellen G. Stearns of Bertram Hall and Scarsdale, New York...