Brooks, Cleanth. A shaping joy : studies in the writer's craft

Folger bibliographic ID: 83512
Folger call number: PN94 .B7
Folger holdings ID: 85625

Contents

The uses of literature -- The modern writer and his community -- T.S. Eliot : thinker and artist -- Poetry since The waste land -- Joyce's Ulysses : symbolic poem, biography or novel -- Poetry and poeticality -- W.B. Yeats as a literary critic -- Auden as a literary critic -- The criticism of fiction : the role of close analysis -- American literature : mirror, lens or prism? -- The American "innocence" in James, Fitzgerald and Faulkner -- The Southern temper -- Southern literature : the wellsprings of its vitality -- Faulkner's treatment of the racial problem : typical examples -- Faulkner as a poet -- The doric delicacy -- Edgar Allan Poe as an interior decorator -- A.E. Housman -- Wordsworth and human suffering : notes on two early poems -- Milton and the new criticism -- Eve's awakening -- The unity of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus

Extended title: A shaping joy : studies in the writer's craft

English literature American literature

author: Brooks, Cleanth, 1906-1994