Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)
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Coming in from the Cold
October 19, 2006
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
by Jonathan Franzen
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A Version of Pastoral
March 23, 2006
All Will Be Well: A Memoir
by John McGahern
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Brotherhood without Fatherhood
October 24, 2002
Why I Am a Catholic
by Garry Wills
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The World Seen and Half-Seen
February 22, 2001
The Hill Bachelors
by William Trevor
Death in Summer (1998) by William Trevor
After Rain (1996) by William Trevor
Excursions in the Real World (1994) by William Trevor
Felicia’s Journey (1994) by William Trevor
The Collected Stories (1993) by William Trevor
Two Lives (1991) by William Trevor
Nights at the Alexandra (1987) by William Trevor
Fools of Fortune (1983) by William Trevor
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The Fabulous Yeats Boys
May 11, 2000
Jack Yeats
by Bruce Arnold
The Life of W.B. Yeats
by Terence Brown
Yeats’s Ghosts: The Secret Life of W.B. Yeats
by Brenda Maddox
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Lives of a Poet
November 18, 1999
Crux: The Letters of James Dickey
edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, by Judith S. Baughman
James Dickey: The Selected Poems
edited with an introduction by Robert Kirschten
The James Dickey Reader
edited by Henry Hart
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Frost: The Icon and the Man
October 21, 1999
Robert Frost: A Life
by Jay Parini
Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin
by Robert Faggen
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Lover of Lost Causes
May 20, 1999
Canaan
by Geoffrey Hill
The Triumph of Love
by Geoffrey Hill
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The Myth of W.B. Yeats
February 19, 1998
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The Supreme Fiction
November 28, 1996
Soul Says: On Recent Poetry by Helen Vendler
The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham by Helen Vendler
The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition by Helen Vendler
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A Terrible State of Nerves
October 31, 1996
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Sassoon’s War
July 11, 1996
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The Myths of Robert Graves
April 4, 1996
Robert Graves and the White Goddess, 19401985 by Richard Perceval Graves
Robert Graves: Life on the Edge by Miranda Seymour
Robert Graves: His Life and Work revised and extended edition., by Martin Seymour-Smith
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The Philosopher of Selfless Love
March 21, 1996
Emmanuel Levinas by Marie-Anne Lescourret
In the Time of the Nations
by Emmanuel Levinas, translated by Michael B. Smith
Outside the Subject by Emmanuel Levinas, translated by Michael B. Smith
Beyond the Verse: Talmudic Readings and Lectures
by Emmanuel Levinas, translated by Gary D. Mole
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Kicking the Air
June 8, 1995
How Late it Was, How Late
by James Kelman
The Dead School by Patrick McCabe
Walking the Dog and Other Stories by Bernard MacLaverty
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Praising Yeats
May 11, 1995
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The Delirium of the Brave
May 26, 1994
In a time of Violence
by Eavan Boland
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Making a Man of Joyce
May 12, 1994
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The Magic of W.B. Yeats
April 21, 1994
Yeats’s ‘Vision’ Papers, Volume 1: The Automatic Script: 5 November 191718 June 1918 General editor: George Mills Harper, edited by Steve L. Adams, by Barbara J. Frieling, by Sandra L. Sprayberry
Yeats’s ‘Vision’ Papers, Volume 2: The Automatic Script: 25 June 191829 March 1920 General editor: George Mills Harper, edited by Steve L. Adams, by Barbara J. Frieling, by Sandra L. Sprayberry
Yeats’s ‘Vision’ Papers, Volume 3: Sleep and Dream Notebooks, ‘Vision’ Notebooks 1 and 2, Card File General editor: George Mills Harper, edited by Robert Anthony Martinich, by Margaret Mills Harper
The Gonne-Yeats Letters 18931938 edited by Anna MacBride White, by A. Norman Jeffares
Running to Paradise: Yeats’s Poetic Art by M.L. Rosenthal
Yeats and Artistic Power by Phillip L. Marcus
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Another Country
February 3, 1994
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
The Commitments by Roddy Doyle
The Snapper by Roddy Doyle
The Van by Roddy Doyle
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Joyce’s Many Lives
October 21, 1993
James Joyce: The Years of Growth 18821915 by Peter Costello
James Joyce: A Literary Life by Morris Beja
James Joyce’s Chamber Music: The Lost Song Settings edited and with an introduction by Myra Teicher Russel
James Joyce’s Chamber Music: Musical Settings by G. Molyneux Palmer sung by Robert White, accompanied by Samuel Sanders
Picking Up Airs: Hearing the Music in Joyce’s Text edited by Ruth H. Bauerle
Dubliners by James Joyce, edited by Hans Walter Gabler, by Walter Hettche
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, edited by Hans Walter Gabler, by Walter Hettche
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, edited by R. B. Kershner
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, edited by Seamus Deane
Ulysses by James Joyce, edited by Jeri Johnson
Reflections on James Joyce: Stuart Gilbert’s Paris Journal edited by Thomas F. Staley, by Randolph Lewis
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The Heroism of Despair
September 23, 1993
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Dream Work
June 24, 1993
All the Pretty Horses: Vol. 1, The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy
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Bewitched, Bothered, & Bewildered
March 25, 1993
Illustration by J. Hillis Miller
Ariadne’s Thread: Story Lines by J. Hillis Miller
The Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the Academy by Frederick Crews
Double Agent: The Critic and Society
by Morris Dickstein
Thinking Across the American Grain: Ideology, Intellect, and the New Pragmatism by Giles Gunn
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Book of Books Books
November 5, 1992
The World of Biblical Literature by Robert Alter
Reading the Book: Making the Bible a Timeless Text by Burton L. Visotzky
The Voice of Jacob: On the Composition of Genesis
by Leslie Brisman
The Changes of Cain: Violence and the Lost Brother in Cain and Abel Literature
by Ricardo J. Quinones
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Mister Myth
April 9, 1992
Words With Power: Being a Second Study of ‘The Bible and Literature’ by Northrop Frye
The Double Vision: Language and Meaning in Religion by Northrop Frye
Reading the World: Selected Writings, 19351976 by Northrop Frye, edited by Robert D. Denham
Myth and Metaphor: Selected Essays, 19741988 by Northrop Frye, edited by Robert D. Denham
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That Old Middle Style
October 10, 1991
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Critics at the Top
August 15, 1991
Selected Writings 1950-1990 by Irving Howe
Minor Prophecies: The Literary Essay in the Culture Wars
by Geoffrey H. Hartman
The Uses of Error
by Frank Kermode
Versions of Pygmalion by J. Hillis Miller
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The Flight of Gerard Manley Hopkins
July 18, 1991
Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Very Private Life by Robert Bernard Martin
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The Poet of Modern Life
February 14, 1991
Baudelaire by Claude Pichois, translated by Graham Robb
The Parisian Prowler: Le Spleen de Paris, Petits Poèmes en prose by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Edward K. Kaplan
Baudelaire: Collected Essays, 19531988 by F.W. Leakey, edited by Eva Jacobs
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Deconstruction, the Nazis, & Paul De Man
October 12, 1989
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Haggling Presences
September 28, 1989
For Every Sin by Aharon Appelfeld, Translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green
The Immortal Bartfuss
by Aharon Appelfeld, Translated from the Hebrew by Jeffrey M. Green
Five Seasons by A.B. Yehoshua, Translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin
His Daughter by Yoram Kaniuk, Translated from the Hebrew by Seymour Simckes
See Under: Love by David Grossman, Translated from the Hebrew by Betsy Rosenberg
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The Higher Criticism
September 28, 1989
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The Strange Case of Paul de Man
June 29, 1989
Wartime Journalism: 19391943 by Paul de Man, edited by Werner Hamacher, by Neil Hertz, by Thomas Keenan
Responses: On Paul de Man’s Wartime Journalism
edited by Werner Hamacher, edited by Neil Hertz, edited by Thomas Keenan
Critical Writings: 19531978 by Paul de Man, edited and with an introduction by Lindsay Waters
Reading de Man Reading edited by Lindsay Waters, edited by Wlad Godzich
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The Revel’s Ended
March 30, 1989
Any Old Iron
by Anthony Burgess
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The Sad Captain of Criticism
March 2, 1989
Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present by Harold Bloom
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The Poet in Limbo
December 22, 1988
Conrad Aiken: Poet of White Horse Vale by Edward Butscher
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Play It Again, Sam
December 8, 1988
Waiting for Godot a play by Samuel Beckett, directed by Mike Nichols
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Judging Pound
November 24, 1988
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The Suburban Prejudice
November 10, 1988
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Pound’s Book of Beasts
June 2, 1988
Pound as Wuz: Essays and Lectures on Ezra Pound by James Laughlin
The Genealogy of Demons: Anti-Semitism, Fascism, and the Myths of Ezra Pound by Robert Casillo
Stone Cottage: Pound, Yeats, and Modernism by James Longenbach
Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano by John Tytell
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‘Vain Fortune’
May 12, 1988
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The Journey Westward
April 28, 1988
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Huston’s Joyce
March 3, 1988
The Dead a film directed by John Huston, based on the story by James Joyce
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New Oxford Irish
September 24, 1987
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Whose Trope Is It Anyway?
June 25, 1987
The Renewal of Literature: Emersonian Reflections by Richard Poirier
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The Luck of the Irish
February 26, 1987
The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse edited by Thomas Kinsella
The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry
edited by Paul Muldoon
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She’s Got Rhythm
December 4, 1986
The Complete Prose of Marianne Moore edited and with an introduction by Patricia C. Willis
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The Young Yeats
August 14, 1986
The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats Vol. I, 18651895 edited by John Kelly
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A Hero of Our Own Times
June 26, 1986
A Man of Letters: Selected Essays
by V.S. Pritchett
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American Sage
September 26, 1985
Attitudes Toward History third edition, with a new afterword by the author Kenneth Burke
Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose third edition, with a new afterword by the author Kenneth Burke
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The Return of the Native
July 19, 1984
An American Procession by Alfred Kazin
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A Guide to the Revolution
December 8, 1983
Literary Theory: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton
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Wonder Woman
October 21, 1982
A Bloodsmoor Romance by Joyce Carol Oates
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Bright and Silly
April 29, 1982
The Enemy: A Biography of Wyndham Lewis by Jeffrey Meyers
Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist by Fredric Jameson
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Hunger Strikers
January 21, 1982
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The Real McCoy
November 19, 1981
Essays on Realism by Georg Lukács, edited by Rodney Livingstone, translated by David Fernbach
The Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterley by George Levine
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The Hunger Strikers
October 22, 1981
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Network
May 28, 1981
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Hide and Seek
May 14, 1981
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (The 1893 Text) by Walter Pater, edited by Donald L. Hill
Walter Pater’s Art of Autobiography
by Gerald Monsman
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Secret Sharer
February 19, 1981
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Deconstruction: An Exchange
December 4, 1980
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You Better Believe It
November 20, 1980
The Middle Ground by Margaret Drabble
Setting the World on Fire by Angus Wilson
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New York Poets
August 14, 1980
The Burning Mystery of Anna in 1951 by Kenneth Koch
The Morning of the Poem by James Schuyler
Sunrise by Frederick Seidel
Trader by Robert Mazzocco
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Deconstructing Deconstruction
June 12, 1980
Deconstruction and Criticism by Harold Bloom, by Paul de Man, by Jacques Derrida, by Geoffrey H. Hartman, by J. Hillis Miller
Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust by Paul de Man
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Reading in Circles
April 3, 1980
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Sign Language
January 24, 1980
As We Know
by John Ashbery
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The Heart in Hiding
September 27, 1979
Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Biography by Paddy Kitchen
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The Stains of Ireland
June 14, 1979
The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan
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From the Country of the Blue
February 22, 1979
The Poems of George Meredith
edited by Phyllis B. Bartlett
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Five Hundred Years of the King’s English
June 1, 1978
The Oxford University Press and the Spread of Learning: An Illustrated History by Nicolas Barker
A History of the Oxford University Press Volume I: To the Year 1780 by Harry Carter
The Oxford University Press: An Informal History
by Peter Sutcliffe
Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary by K.M. Elisabeth Murray
The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800 by Lucien Febvre, by Henri-Jean Martin, translated by David Gerard
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Only Disconnect
December 8, 1977
Daniel Martin by John Fowles
The Sun and the Moon by Niccolò Tucci
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Stevens at the Crossing
September 15, 1977
Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate by Harold Bloom
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Yeats’s Vision
July 14, 1977
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The Hard Case of Yeats
May 26, 1977
Yeats by Frank Tuohy
Maud Gonne by Samuel Levenson
W.B. Yeats and the Idea of a Theatre by James W. Flannery
The Cuchulain Plays of W.B. Yeats by Reg Skene
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The Snow Man
March 3, 1977
Souvenirs and Prophecies: The Young Wallace Stevens by Holly Stevens
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Drums Under the Window
October 14, 1976
The Damnable Question by George Dangerfield
Mother Ireland
by Edna O'Brien
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A Pleasing Discovery
October 18, 1973
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Good Grief
July 19, 1973
Epistle to a Godson, and Other Poems
by W.H. Auden
Forewords and Afterwords
by W.H. Auden, selected by Edward Mendelson
Man’s Place: An Essay on Auden by Richard Johnson
W.H. Auden as a Social Poet by Frederick Buell
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Darling, They’re Quoting Our Poem
April 19, 1973
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 4, 1900-1950 edited by I.R. Willison
The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950 chosen and edited by Helen Gardner
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse
chosen by Philip Larkin
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Life Sentence
December 2, 1971
Meet Me in the Green Glen by Robert Penn Warren
The Condor Passes by Shirley Ann Grau
Edsel by Karl Shapiro
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Waiting for the End
May 6, 1971
The Gulf by Derek Walcott
The Carrier of Ladders by W.S. Merwin
Darker
by Mark Strand
The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace by James Merrill
The Whispering Roots and Other Poems by C. Day-Lewis
Collecting Evidence
by Hugh Seidman
Baby Breakdown
by Anne Waldman
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Ghosts and Others
November 5, 1970
Adam and the Train: Two Novels by Heinrich Böll
Whitewater
by Paul Horgan
The Dick
by Bruce Jay Friedman
The Ghost of Henry James by David Plante
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Language Barriers
June 18, 1970
The Best and the Last of Edwin O’Connor edited with an Introduction by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and with contributions by Edmund Wilson, by John V. Kelleher
Max Jamison by Wilfrid Sheed
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Oasis Poetry
May 7, 1970
Derivations by Robert Duncan
Shall We Gather at the River by James Wright
Collected Poems by Alan Dugan
Leaflets by Adrienne Rich
The Naomi Poems: Corpse and Beans by Saint Geraud
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The Uncompleted Dossier
March 12, 1970
Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene
Blind Love, and Other Stories by V.S. Pritchett
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Confidence Men
December 4, 1969
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen by R.E. Raspe, illustrated by Ronald Searle, Introduction by S.J. Perelman
Selected Writings of E. T. A. Hoffmann edited, translated with an Introduction by Leonard J. Kent, by Elizabeth C. Knight, illustrated by Jacob Landau
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Cash Nexus
October 9, 1969
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Cummings and Goings
October 9, 1969
Selected Letters of E. E. Cummings edited by F.W. Dupee, edited by George Stade
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Couples
July 10, 1969
Going Places by Leonard Michaels
Mirrors by Lucy Warner
What I’m Going to Do, I Think by L. Woiwode
A Nest of Ninnies by John Ashbery, by James Schuyler
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Worldling
June 19, 1969
Secondary Worlds by W.H. Auden
Collected Longer Poems by W.H. Auden
Letters From Iceland by W.H. Auden, by Louis MacNeice
Völuspá: The Song of the Sybil translated by Paul B. Taylor, translated by W.H. Auden
Quest for the Necessary: W. H. Auden and the Dilemma of Divided Consciousness by Herbert Greenberg
Auden’s Poetry by Justin Replogle
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Second Thoughts
May 22, 1969
The World’s Body
by John Crowe Ransom
John Crowe Ransom: Critical Essays and a Bibliography edited by Thomas Daniel Young
Essays of Four Decades by Allen Tate
The Fugitive Group: A Literary History by Louise Cowan
The Burden of Time: The Fugitives and Agrarians by John L. Stewart
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Parts of Speech
February 13, 1969
The Counterfeiters by Hugh Kenner
The Literature of Silence by Ihab Hassan
Yeats’s Blessings on Von Hügel by Martin Green
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Enigma Variations
July 11, 1968
Collected Poems 1915-1967 by Kenneth Burke
The Complete White Oxen by Kenneth Burke
Language as Symbolic Action by Kenneth Burke
Towards a Better Life (Second Edition) by Kenneth Burke
Counterstatement (Second Edition) by Kenneth Burke
The Philosophy of Literary Form by Kenneth Burke
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Objects Solitary and Terrible
June 6, 1968
Live or Die by Anne Sexton
The Lice by W.S. Merwin
Reasons for Moving by Mark Strand
Love Letters from Asia by Sandra Hochman
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That Old Eloquence
April 25, 1968
Not This Pig by Philip Levine
A 1-12 by Louis Zukofsky
After Experience by W.D. Snodgrass
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Still Standing
April 11, 1968
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It Was Wond’ring
March 28, 1968
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The Black Ox
February 29, 1968
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Fabulous Salad
February 1, 1968
Wallace Stevens: The Making of Harmonium by Robert Buttel
Wallace Stevens: Musing the Obscure
by Ronald Sukenick
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The Other Country
December 21, 1967
The Golden Key by George MacDonald, illustrated by Maurice Sendak, Afterword by W.H. Auden
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The Ordinary Universe
December 7, 1967
The Pyramid by William Golding
William Golding: A Critical Study by Mark Kinkead-Weekes, by Ian Gregor
The Art of William Golding by Bernard S. Oldsey, by Stanley Weintraub
Imaginary Friends by Alison Lurie
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Moidores for Hart Crane
November 9, 1967
The Poetry of Hart Crane by R. W. B. Lewis
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Sweepstakes
September 28, 1967
Why Are We In Vietnam? by Norman Mailer
Death Kit
by Susan Sontag
The Puzzleheaded Girl by Christina Stead
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What’s Your Inner Reality?
August 24, 1967
The Eighth Day
by Thornton Wilder
Snow White
by Donald Barthelme
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Absolute Pitch
August 3, 1967
Nabokov: His Life in Art: A Critical Narrative by Andrew Field
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Man Without Art
June 15, 1967
Death on the Installment Plan by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, translated by Ralph Manheim
Céline and His Vision by Erika Ostrovsky
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Svevo’s Comedy
May 4, 1967
Short Sentimental Journey, and Other Stories by Italo Svevo, Translations by Beryl de Zoete, by L. Collison-Morley, by Ben Johnson
Italo Svevo: The Man and the Writer by P.N. Furbank
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The Politics of Poetry
April 6, 1967
W. B. Yeats and Georgian Ireland
by Donald T. Torchiana
The Letters of John Gay edited by C.F. Burgess
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Balloons
March 9, 1967
Nil: Episodes in the Literary Conquest of Void during the Nineteenth Century by Robert Martin Adams
A World Elsewhere: The Place of Style in American Literature by Richard Poirier
In the Human Grain: Technological Culture and Its Effect on Man, Literature and Religion by Walter J. Ong, by S.J.
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Moorish Gorgeousness
January 12, 1967
Tell Me, Tell Me by Marianne Moore
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Wallace Stevens, Imperator
December 1, 1966
The Letters of Wallace Stevens
edited by Holly Stevens
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Magic Defeated
November 17, 1966
The Time of the Angels by Iris Murdoch
The Birds Fall Down by Rebecca West
The Animal Hotel by Jean Garrigue
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Miracle Plays
October 20, 1966
Miracles edited by Richard Lewis
Bertha, and Other Plays by Kenneth Koch
Reasons of the Heart by Edward Dahlberg
Cipango’s Hinder Door by Edward Dahlberg
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Aboriginal Poet
September 22, 1966
Collected Poems by Theodore Roethke
Theodore Roethke: An Introduction to the Poetry by Karl Malkoff
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Grand Old Opry
August 18, 1966
Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth
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Moravia’s Vulgarity
July 28, 1966
Man as an End by Alberto Moravia, translated by Bernard Wall
The Lie by Alberto Moravia, translated by Angus Davidson
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Experiments in Folly
June 9, 1966
The Doctor Is Sick
by Anthony Burgess
The Secret Swinger by Alan Harrington
A Season in the Life of Emmanuel by Marie-Claire Blais, translated by Derek Coltman, Introduction by Edmund Wilson
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Musil
May 26, 1966
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A Good-Natured Man
April 28, 1966
Collected Works of Oliver Goldsmith edited by Arthur Friedman
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The Long Poem
April 14, 1966
Wildtrack by John Wain
Rivers and Mountains by John Ashbery
The War of the Secret Agents, and Other Poems by Henri Coulette
Nights and Days by James Merrill
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Ultra Writer
March 3, 1966
Selected Letters of Malcolm Lowry edited by Harvey Breit, edited by Margerie Bonner Lowry
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry, Reissued with an Introduction by Stephen Spender
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Man of Letters
February 3, 1966
Collected Letters: Volume I (1874-1897) by Bernard Shaw, edited by Dan H. Laurence
The Unrepentant Pilgrim: A Study of the Development of Bernard Shaw by J. Percy Smith
G. B. Shaw: A Collection of Critical Essays edited by R.J. Kaufmann
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Blues for Mr. Baldwin
December 9, 1965
Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin
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Reconsidering Katherine Anne Porter
November 11, 1965
Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
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Dry Dreams
October 14, 1965
Letters to Anais Nin by Henry Miller
Plexus by Henry Miller
Sexus by Henry Miller
Nexus by Henry Miller
The World of Sex by Henry Miller
Quiet Days in Clichy by Henry Miller
Henry Miller on Writing edited by Thomas H. Moore
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A Man of Words
August 26, 1965
James, Seumas and Jacques: Unpublished Writings of James Stephens edited by Lloyd Frankenberg
James Stephens: His Work and an Account of His Life by Hilary Pyle