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Drawing heavily on interviews with people who knew him, and on correspondence, examines the career of Canadian literary critic Brown (1905-51), who was at the center of the country's intellectual life for two decades, raised the status of North American literature in the international community, and was instrumental in furthering the careers of many contemporary writers. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
These letters give a unique glimpse into publishing history in Canada and tell a human story of two Canadian men of letters, one in his prime, the other at the end of his life.
The Alexander Lectures for 1949-50. In his Preface, Professor Brown says, "Isolating a single element or group of elements in the novel, and considering it in unreal separation from all the other elements which it actually fuses, is artificial, but so is all criticism. The artificiality is justified if when one turns back from the criticism to the novels these appear more intelligible and more delightful. That is the test." Applying the test to Dr. Brown's present work, the method is more than justified by the results. they are titled: "Phrase, Character, Incident," "Expanding Symbols," "Interweaving Themes," and "Rhythm in E.M. Forster's A Passage to India."
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This thoughtful little volume features the full range of Arnold's poetry, including "Shakespeare", "Sohrab and Rustum", "Isolation", "To Marguerite", "To Marguerite--Continued", "Dover Beach", "The Future", "Thyrsis", and "Rugby Chapel". Edited by E K Brown, this selection is well supported by Arnold's preface to Poems (1853), an introduction, a list of principal dates in Arnold's life, and a bibliography.
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