American critical essays, twentieth century / Selected, with an introd. by Harold Beaver.

The hall-marks of American, by H. L. Mencken.
What is literature, what is language, etc.?? by E. Pound.
Theodore Dreiser, by V. Brooks.
The sense of poetry: Shakespeare's "The phoenix and the turtle," by I. A. Richards.
The politics of Flaubert, by E. Wilson.
Poet without critics: a note on Robinson Jeffers, by H. Gregory.
Thomas Wolfe: the professional deformation, by M. Cowley.
Emily Dickinson, by A. Warren.
The man of letters in the modern world, by A. Tate.
Maule's curse or Hawthorne and the problem of allegory, by Y. Winters.
Willa Cather: the tone of time, by M. D. Zabel.
Tradition and the individual talent, by F. O. Matthiessen.
An adjunct to the muses' diadem: a note on E. P., by R. P. Blackmur.
William Faulkner, by R. P. Warren.
Huckleberry Finn, by L. Trilling.
What does poetry communicate? by C. Brooks.
Henry James: The American scene, by W. H. Auden.
Paleface and redskin, by P. Rahy.
Observations on the style of Ernest Hemingway, by H. Levin.
The broken circuit: romance and the American novel, by R. Chase.
Ishmael and Ahab, by A. Kazin.
The book of the grotesque, by I. Howe.