Studies in classic American literature / D.H. Lawrence.

New York : The Viking Press, [1961]

©1961

viii, 177 pages ; 20 cm.

BEIN Zab H514 Zz961L: "Sixth printing December 1968". Paperbound. Ownership inscription, manuscript markings and annotations in pen of William Heyen. From the library of William Heyen. Accompanied by: lined sheet of paper with manuscript notes (1 leaf) ; scrap paper with manuscript notes (3 leaves).

In this work, "D.H. Lawrence set down his interpretation of what were for him the significant books ... His opinions on these and other works are often startling, sometimes extreme, never dull; they reflect the same moral passion and visionary grasp of essentials found in his novels. Since 1923 ... the 'thin little volumes' of Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, and Whitman, which D.H. Lawrence in effect rediscovered, have come into their own. A new generation of critics echoes Lawrence's judgments of these works, and the book he wrote about them ... has become itself a classic."

English

June 01, 2002