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Archive for the 'A Week in Literary History' CategoryThis Week in Literary HistoryJanuary 1st, 2012 American short story writer and novelist John O’Hara (Appointment in Samarra, 1934) is born in 1905 in Pottsville, Pa.
O’Hara began his career as a short story writer; he published more than 200 in The New Yorker, starting in 1928. Brendan Gill thought him “among the greatest short-story writers in English.” He successfully turned his hand to novels with Appointment in Samarra in 1934, but thereafter his standing among critics fell, partly due to his defensive, abrasive personality. A master all the same. Suggested Reading Short stories 14 collections, 1935-74. Novels Appointment in Samarra, 1934. BUtterfield 8, 1935. Pal Joey, 1940. Ten North Frederick, 1955.
Posted by: The Editors Last Week in Literary HistoryJanuary 1st, 2012 Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, 1959) is born in 1931 in Montréal. Mordecai Richler, b. January 27, 1931, d. 2001
Suggested Reading Novels The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, 1959. Cocksure, 1968. The Street, 1969. St. Urbain’s Horseman, 1971. Joshua Then and Now, 1980. Travel Images of Spain, 1977. This Year in Jerusalem, 1994. Nonfiction On Snooker: The Game and the Characters Who Play It, 2001.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryDecember 30th, 2002 English writer Rudyard Kipling (Kim, 1901) is born in Bombay, British India, in 1865. Rudyard Kipling, b. December 30, 1865, d. 1936
Suggested Reading Novels The Light that Failed, 1890. Captains Courageous, 1897. Kim, 1901. Puck of Pook’s Hill, 1906. Short stories Plain Tales from the Hills, 1888. The Phantom Rickshaw, 1888. The Jungle Book, 1893. The Second Jungle Book, 1894. Just So Stories, 1902. Poetry Mandalay, 1890. Gunga Din, 1890. If—, 1895. Non-fiction The White Man’s Burden, 1899.
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 24th, 2002 English poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold ("Dover Beach") is born in 1822 in Laleham-on-Thames, Middlesex.
Arnold is generally considered one of the three most respected nineteenth-century British poets, along with Tennyson and Browning, but he wrote prolifically in prose, from literary criticism to essays and books on social issues. The son of the famous master of Rugby, Thomas Arnold, he also became an authority on education. Suggested Reading Poetry The Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold, 1950. Prose The Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold, 1960-1977. Biography Matthew Arnold, by George Saintsbury, 1899. Matthew Arnold, by Lionel Trilling, 1939.
Posted by: The Editors A Week in Literary HistoryDecember 23rd, 2002 French critic and historian Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve (Portraits contemporains, 1846) is born in Boulogne, 1804. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, b. December 23, 1804, d. 1869
Suggested Reading Port-Royal, 1840-1859. Portraits contemporains, 1846. Les Lundis, 1851-1872. Causeries du lundi, 1851-1862. English Portraits (a selection from Causeries du lundi), 1875.
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.
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