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by: D. H. Lawrence
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 810.9
EAN: 9780140183771
ISBN: 0140183779
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: December 01, 1990
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Sales Rank: 38607
Studio: Penguin Classics
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First published in 1923, this anthology provides a cross-section of Lawrence's writing on American literature. It includes landmark essays on Benjamin Franklin, Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville and Walt Whitman. The volume offers the final 1923 version of the text in a newly corrected and uncensored form, and earlier (often very different) versions of many of the essays, and other materials (including four versions of Lawrence's pioneering essay on Whitman).
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Rating:  - hidden treasure
delightful. the essay on moby dick alone is worth the read. has stayed fresh in my memories for over 20 years. lawrence may have been sobering out in taos, but his genuis was burning bright. remember, the works he was praising were not yet completely "canonical." lawrence was a key signpost. vivid and sensitive, imagistic appreciations.
Rating:  - Sweatin' To The Oldies with D.H. Lawrence
There are three reasons to read STUDIES IN CLASSIC AMERICAN LITERATURE by D.H. Lawrence. First: to better understand Lawrence and his themes. Second: to be entertained. Criticism is rarely rendered with so much passion, wit and clarity. Third: to experience American culture from an outsider's perspective, a very knowledgeable though albeit highly opinionated perspective (which makes for that entertainment value).
DHL's prevailing theory is that to emerge as a distinct cultural, as ... Read More
Rating: - Always interesting but often wrong
This passionate brief survey of American Literature contains much spontaneous flowing masterful and original writing. Lawrence famous 'Trust the teller not the tale' is the motto of the work. It argues that the true creative work takes on a life of its own that even its creator cannot completely define and control.
Perhaps the most famous essay in this book is Lawrence's hatchet- job of Ben Franklin who he found to be a spiteful, penny- pinching, calculating dead soul. In fact old Ben could ... Read More
Rating: - Trust the teller along with the tale
This is a small book yet Lawrence's genius enables him to see big things in it, especially about those large writers like Melville he felt an affinity to. "Trust the tale and not the teller" is one of his motto's here and he tries to show how the great works go beyond the intentions of their creators.
One objection. He is especially hard on Franklin who he makes into a priggish, petty prune of a minor moralist. Franklin was a many - sided genius who was open to kind of creation Lawrence had ... Read More
Rating: - American Genius Loci
Useful book to understand America.
Terrific.
And there's more to come....
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