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In defense of reading; a reader's approach to literary criticism.

Author: Reuben A Brower; Richard Poirier
Publisher: New York, Dutton, 1962.
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Brower, Reuben Arthur, 1908-1975.
In defense of reading.
New York, Dutton, 1962
(OCoLC)610061972
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Reuben A Brower; Richard Poirier
OCLC Number: 2029995
Description: 311 pages 22 cm
Contents: Symbolic landscape in Wordsworth and Yeats / Paul de Man --
North of Boston: Frost's poetry of dialogue / William H. Pritchard --
Poetry in an age of prose: Arnold and Gray / Neil H. Hertz --
The authority of the narrative voice in Paradise lost / Anne Davidson Ferry --
The poet-readers of Wallace Stevens / Thomas B. Whitbread --
New uses of adversity: tragic experience in The tempest / Stephen Kitay Orgel --
King Lear and the theory of the "sight pattern" / Paul J. Alpers --
Henry VIII: the conscience of the king / Paul Bertram --
Swift and the common reader / Oswald Johnston --
Heroic folly: Pope's satiric identity / Thomas R. Edwards, jr. --
Generality in Augustan satire / William Youngren --
Jane Austen's Emma: the truths and disguises of human disclosure / G. Armour Craig --
That way madness lies: nature and human nature in Parkman's La Salle / William R. Taylor --
Mark Twain, Jane Austen, and the imagination of society / Richard Poirier.
Responsibility: Edited by Reuben A. Brower and Richard Poirier.

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