The American Literary Anthology 2.

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TH AMERICA LITERARY ANTHOLOGY
The Second Annual Collection of the Best from the Literary Magazines
Edited by GEORGE PLIMPTON PETER ARDERY
"A really fine and varied survey, sophisticated, sensitive, wide-ranging." Publishers' Weekly
The role of the so-called "little magazines" in the development of modern writing is well known. The Dial, for example, was the first to publish T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"; The Little Review dared, before any other American publisher, to print a selection from James Joyce's Ulysses; and magazines such as Transition, Partisan Review, Double Dealer, and Chicago Review are responsible for introducing to American audiences such literary giants as Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Beckett, Saul Bellow, and William Burroughs.
This second annual AMERICAN LITERARY ANTHOLOGY is an impresive collection of writings by Americans—eight stories, nine essays, and twenty-nine poems—that appeared in the literary magazines during 1967. The works were... Tovább

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TH AMERICA LITERARY ANTHOLOGY
The Second Annual Collection of the Best from the Literary Magazines
Edited by GEORGE PLIMPTON PETER ARDERY
"A really fine and varied survey, sophisticated, sensitive, wide-ranging." Publishers' Weekly
The role of the so-called "little magazines" in the development of modern writing is well known. The Dial, for example, was the first to publish T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"; The Little Review dared, before any other American publisher, to print a selection from James Joyce's Ulysses; and magazines such as Transition, Partisan Review, Double Dealer, and Chicago Review are responsible for introducing to American audiences such literary giants as Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Beckett, Saul Bellow, and William Burroughs.
This second annual AMERICAN LITERARY ANTHOLOGY is an impresive collection of writings by Americans—eight stories, nine essays, and twenty-nine poems—that appeared in the literary magazines during 1967. The works were selected by a distinguished group of novelists, critics, and poets, and are presented here under a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The functions of the grant are to give greater circulation to work that originally appeared in magazines (continued on back Bap)
(continued from front flap) and journals with limited circulation, to offer individual grants to those writers selected for the anthology, and to reward the magazines who had the perspicacity to publish the selections in the first place. Random House is publishing this second volume in the series at cost; any profits will be used by the Endowment to finance future grants.
Included in this fascinating, varied collection are writers both well known and little circulated. Among the works presented are a sympathetic portrait of Malcolm X by Robert Penn Warren; Frank Conroy's nostalgic "Please Don't Take My Sunshine Away," described by Publishers' Weekly as "a tender masterpiece"; a charming essay by Lois Lautner on the music of Arnold Schoenberg ("I do not like to listen to it myself," the composer confides!); a massive poem by Louis Zukofsky; and a one-word construction by Aram Saroyan.
The selections—culled from over three hundred issues of small magazines, including Angel Hair, Kayak, The Southern Review, Damascus Road, The Coyote's Journal, Hollow Orange, and Poetry—were made by the following judges: Vance Bourjaily, Mark Harris, Philip Roth (fiction); Robert Duncan, Anne Sexton, Louis Simpson (poetry); Albert Guerard, Roger Shattuck, John Simon (essays & criticism).
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