Literary Reflections

by Lewis, R. W. B.

• ISBN13: 9781555531607
• ISBN10: 1555531601
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-06-01
• Publisher: Northeastern Univ Pr

Summary

With both his range of interests and his breadth of perspective, R. W. B. Lewis has cut a broad swath through the world of letters over the decades. He has written on subjects from the Greek and Roman classics through modern European writers to such Americans as Ralph Ellison and Robert Penn Warren. He takes a special interest in the historical and biographical contests from which literature emerges.
Here is the first collection of Lewis's essays in nearly thirty years, and it includes several never before published. As Lewis himself says, the volume represents "a retracing of cultural steps," as well as "the conflicting preoccupations of a humanist."

Table of Contents

Preface
Classical and Transatlantic
On Translating Virgil: Yif That I can (1960)	p. 3
The Art of Robert Fitzgerald (1991)	p. 18
Shakespeare's Pericles (1962)	p. 28
Camus's Caligula (1960)	p. 44
Elio Vittorini	p. 54
The Restoration of Reality (1960)	p. 54
Plans and Products, 1949-1966 (1989)	p. 61
Conversations in Milan (1990)	p. 70
Fugitives from England (1981)	p. 75
An Afterword on Paul Theroux (1991)	p. 83
Americans
The Facts in the Case of Mr. Poe (1980)	p. 91
Afterword: The Poe Biographer (1991)	p. 100
Henry Nash Smith, Democracy and the Novel (1978)	p. 102
Melville's Pierre (1981)	p. 110
The Letters of Edith Wharton (1988)	p. 129
E. A. Robinson: A Voice Out of the Darkness (1973)	p. 154
A Handful of Poems	p. 164
Ritual Naming: Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison (1981)	p. 177
Critics of Literature
Glimpses of Francis Fergusson (1969)	p. 197
Edmund Wilson	p. 205
The Surviving Self (1963)	p. 205
Theatricals (1969)	p. 213
A Critic of History (1983)	p. 220
Malcolm Cowley (1980)	p. 227
Bibliographical Afterword (1991)	p. 232
V. S. Pritchett (1980)	p. 235
Bibliographical Afterword (1991)	p. 240
Richard Ellmann: A Tribute (1989)	p. 243
Irving Howe (1982)	p. 248
A View from the Source
Robert Penn Warren's Canon of Precursors (1992)	p. 259
Notes on Origins and Other Addenda	p. 293
Index	p. 299
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