On March 5 1922, Louise Maunsell Field published her review of The Beautiful and the Damned in the New York Times. Her main point of contention with F. Scott is that he had saddled her with a “thoroughly depressing book,” the main character of which, “to the reader, … never seems one-third as intelligent as the author … Continue reading »
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Discussing the ‘20th Century Lyric’
On the course that has inspired most of the material for this blog — “Postwar/Post-nation: Irish and British Poetry since 1945″ — is Edna Longley’s Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry. The preface to this anthology outlines her judgements of 20th century poetry, and her belief that the major poetic form throughout the century is ‘the … Continue reading »
