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| Genre/Form: | American essays Essays Poetry |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980. Collected essays and occasional writings of Katherine Anne Porter. New York, Delacorte Press [1970] (OCoLC)576090989 |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Katherine Anne Porter |
| OCLC Number: | 66040 |
| Notes: | "A Seymour Lawrence book." |
| Description: | xi, 496 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | Critical: On a criticism of Thomas Hardy -- Wreath for the gamekeeper -- Reflections on Willa Cather -- "It is hard to stand in the middle" -- Art of Katherine Mansfield -- Orpheus in purgatory -- "Laughing heat of the sun" -- On Christopher Sykes -- Virginia Woolf -- E.M. Forster -- Max Beerbohm -- Eleanor Clark -- Wingéd skull -- On modern fiction -- Personal and particular: St. Augustine and the bullfight -- Little incident in the Rue de l'Odéon -- Letter to Sylvia Beach -- Letters to a nephew -- Dylan Thomas -- Defense of Circe -- Pull Dick, pull devil -- Flower of flowers -- Note on Pierre-Joseph Redouté -- Portrait: Old South -- Audubon's happy land -- House of my own -- Letter to the editor of The Village Voice -- Necessary enemy -- "Marriage is belonging" -- Act of faith: 4 July 1942 -- Future is now -- Letter to the editor of The Nation -- On Communism in Hollywood -- Letter to the editor of The Saturday Review of Literature -- Opening speech at Paris Conference, 1952 -- Remarks on the agenda -- Letter to the Editor of The Yale Review -- Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post -- Speech of acceptance -- Biographical: Days before -- Homage to Ford Madox Ford -- Gertrude Stein: Three views -- Ole Woman River -- Eudora Welty and a curtain of green -- Sprig of mint for Allen -- On first meeting T.S. Eliot -- Flannery O'Connor at home -- From the notebooks: Yeats, Joyce, Eliot, Pound -- Romany Marie, Joe Gould-Two legends come to life -- Jacqueline Kennedy -- Cotton Mather: Affectation of Praehiminincies (A.D. 1663-1675) -- Goat for Azazel (A.D. 1688) -- Bright particular faith (A.D.1700) -- Mexican: Why I write about Mexico -- Notes on the life and death of a hero -- Miss Porter adds a comment -- Leaving the Petate -- Fiesta of Guadalupe -- Mexican Trinity -- Where presidents have no friends -- La Conquistadora -- Quetzalcoatl -- Charmed life -- On Writing: My first speech -- Notes on writing -- Three statements about writing -- No plot, my dear, no story -- On writing -- "Noon Wine": Sources -- Poems: Enchanted -- Two songs from Mexico -- Little requiem -- Winter burial -- Anniversary in a country cemetery -- November in Windham -- After a long journey -- Measures for song and dance. |
| Series Title: | Seymour Lawrence book. |
Abstract:
Anthology of the distinguished American author's essays, biographical memoirs and poems on such diverse subjects as Thomas Hardy, marriage, the creative process and Dylan Thomas.
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