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Archive for the 'A Week in Literary History' CategoryThis Week in Literary HistoryMarch 1st, 2010 In 1859, Scottish author Kenneth Grahame (The Wind in the Willows, 1908) is born in Edinburgh.
Kenneth Grahame was not a happy man in his life or in his career: he wrote all his life and had success with only one immortal book. One hopes that the fact that The Wind in the Willows has brought so much happiness to so many people is some comfort to his soul. Suggested Reading Dream Days, 1898. The Wind in the Willows, 1908.
Posted by: The Editors Last Week in Literary HistoryMarch 1st, 2010 Beloved American children’s writer Dr. Seuss is born in Springfield, Mass., 1904. Theodor (Dr. Seuss) Geisl, b. March 2, 1904, d. 1991
Suggested Reading Books And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, 1937. Horton Hatches the Egg, 1940. The Cat in the Hat, 1957. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! 1957. The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, 1958. Green Eggs and Ham, 1960.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryDecember 30th, 2002 In 1869, Anglo-Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock (The Garden of Folly, 1924) is born in Swanmore, Hampshire. Stephen Leacock, b. December 30, 1869, d. 1944
Suggested Reading Humor Literary Lapses, 1910. Nonsense Novels, 1911. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, 1912. Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, 1914. Further Foolishness, 1916. The Garden of Folly, 1924. Literary Studies Essays and Literary Studies, 1916. Mark Twain, 1932. Charles Dickens: His Life and Work, 1933.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryDecember 26th, 2002 In 1891, American novelist Henry Miller (Tropic of Cancer, 1934) is born in New York City.
Miller settled happily into his role as aging satyr during the Sixties and Seventies, but before that he had helped open the floodgates in literature with his sexually explicit (and sexually fixated) novels. His penis (and his novels) aside, he is an amusing, likeable, and vivid writer who left some memorable books behind, and who spoke the plain truth far more often than not. Suggested Reading Novels Tropic of Cancer, 1934. Black Spring, 1936. Tropic of Capricorn, 1939. The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy, 1949-60. Other writings The Colossus of Maroussi, 1941. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, 1945. The Books in My Life, 1952. Quiet Days in Clichy, 1956. Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch, 1957.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryDecember 22nd, 2002 In 1869, American poet Edwin Arlington Robinson (The Man Against the Sky, 1916) is born in Head Tide, Me.
Robinson is the most old-fashioned of famous twentieth-century poets, and unique in the sense that from his forties on, he was a professional poet, spending his summers at the MacDowell Colony and the rest of the year in New York City. Amidst his longer poems, it’s easy to forget the secure and often audacious mastery of his short ones. Suggested Reading Poems The Children of the Night, 1897. The Man Against the Sky, 1916. Tristram, 1927. Collected Poems, 1937.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryDecember 21st, 2002 In 1892, English author Rebecca West (Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, 1942) is born Cicily Isabel Fairfield in Streathem. Rebecca West, b. December 21, 1892, d. 1983
Suggested Reading Novels The Judge, 1922. Harriet Hume, 1929. The Thinking Reed, 1936. Critical Studies Henry James, 1916. D.H. Lawrence: An Elegy, 1930. Arnold Bennett Himself, 1931. Other Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, 1941. The Meaning of Treason, 1947.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryDecember 20th, 2002 American novelist David Markson (Wittgenstein’s Mistress, 1988) is born in Albany, N.Y. David Markson, b. December 20, 1927
Suggested Reading Novels Epitaph for a Tramp, 1959. Epitaph for a Dead Beat, 1961. Miss Doll, Go Home, 1965. The Ballad of Dingus Magee, 1966. Going Down, 1970. Springer’s Progress, 1977. Wittgenstein’s Mistress, 1988. Reader’s Block, 1996. This Is Not a Novel, 2001. Vanishing Point, 2004. The Last Novel, 2007. Poems Collected Poems, 1993. Other Malcolm Lowry’s Volcano: Myth, Symbol, Meaning, 1978.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryDecember 17th, 2002 English novelist Ford Madox Ford (The Good Soldier, 1915) is born in Merton, Surrey, 1873. Ford Madox Ford, b. December 17, 1873, d. 1939
Suggested Reading Novels The Fifth Queen, 1906. An English Girl, 1907. Ladies Whose Bright Eyes, 1911. The Good Soldier, 1915. The Parade’s End novels Some Do Not, 1924. No More Parades, 1925. A Man Could Stand Up, 1926. The Last Post, 1928. Poetry Collected Poems, 1913. Collected Poems, 1936. Reminiscences Thus to Revisit, 1921. Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance, 1924. No Enemy, 1929. Return to Yesterday, 1931. It Was the Nightingale, 1933. Criticism, Studies, & Travel Ford Madox Brown, 1896. The Cinque Ports, 1900. Rossetti, 1902. Hans Holbein, the Younger, 1905. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 1907. Henry James, 1913. Between St. Denis and St. George, 1915. A Mirror to France, 1926. The English Novel, 1926. Provence: from Minstrels to the Machine, 1935.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryDecember 16th, 2002 In 1900, English critic and short story writer V.S. (Victor Sawdon) Pritchett (Blind Love, 1969) is born in Ipswich, Suffolk. V.S. Pritchett, b. December 16, 1900, d. 1997
Suggested Reading Stories The Spanish Virgin and Other Stories, 1930. You Make Your Own Life, 1938. It May Never Happen, 1945. When My Girl Comes Home, 1961. Complete Short Stories, 1990. Memoirs A Cab at the Door, 1968. Midnight Oil, 1971. Literary Criticism Complete Collected Essays, 1991. Travel The Spanish Temper, 1954. London Perceived, 1962. New York Proclaimed, 1965. Dublin: A Portrait, 1967.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryDecember 11th, 2002 In 1922, American short story writer Grace Paley (Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, 1974) is born in New York City.
Grace Paley will perhaps not loom large in histories of late-twentieth-century American literature, because she wrote only in the short story genre, and wrote slowly. But what stories! Like Hemingway and Raymond Carver, she taught a generation how to make a piece of short fiction memorable, and her stories can be returned to time and again for the sheer delight they give in exuberant, witty, and wise writing. Suggested Reading Short stories The Little Disturbances of Man, 1959. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, 1974. Later the Same Day, 1985. Essays Just As I Thought, 1998.
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