Malcolm Cowley

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Carl Bode

The Portable Emerson

The adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed "the lost generation", are brought to life in this book of prose works. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Crane, Hemingway, Wilder, Dos Passos, Cowley and others "escaped" to Europe, as exiles. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s

Exile's Return

Walt Whitman

Gay Wilson Allen

Mark Van Doren

Gathers selections from Leaves of Grass and essays and reminiscences by the nineteenth-century American poet

The Portable Walt Whitman

Remembering the 1930s

The Dream of the Golden Mountains

Presents interviews with leading European and American authors which reveal some of their personal lives and working habits.

The Paris Review Interviews : First Series

Writers at Work

Works and Days of the Lost Generation

A Second Flowering

The Literary Situation. (Second Printing.).

George Plimpton

Paris review

The Paris Review Interviews, First Series. Edited by George Plimpton with an Introd. by Malcolm Cowley

Gatien Courtilz de Sandras

Eloquently and wittily reports on "the country of age" by a man in his ninth decade, sharing numerous reflections, anecdotes, and quotations as "principal monuments" of his lifelong journey to old age

The View from 80

Critic, poet, editor, chronicler of the Lost Generation, elder statesman of the Republic of Letters, Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989) was an eloquent witness to American literary and political life. His letters, mostly unpublished, provide a self-portrait of Cowley and his time and make possible a full appreciation of his long, varied career.

The Long Voyage

The adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed "The Lost Generation" are brought to life here by one of the group's most notable members. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Crane, Hemingway, Wilder, Dos Passos, Crowley, and many other writers "escaped" to Europe, some forever, some as temporary exiles. As Cowley details in this intimate, anecdotal portrait, in renouncing traditional life and literature, they expanded the boundaries of art.

During the 1930’s, one of the liveliest decades in the history of the American mind, Malcolm Cowley was literary editor of the New Republic, the magazine that served more than any other as the intellectual conscience of a generation. The impressive collection of essays and reviews of this gifted commentator from that period is a kind of topical chronicle of the era. From hundreds of reviews and essays, Henry Dan Piper has selected and arranged these articles to offer a source book of readings in the epoch’s intellectual, social, and literary history. The volume is divided into two parts, and the articles are arranged chronologically. Part 1, The Social Record, illuminates the issues, problems, and ideas of the period. Part 2, The Literary Record, contains articles which deal chiefly with literary values. In addition, Mr. Cowley has written a lively, new, retrospective essay for this volume, “Adventures of a Book Reviewer,” in itself a classic on the art of the book review. No important name and no vital issue of this significant period is omitted from this record, attesting to Mr. Cowley’s remarkable discernment and to the purity of his artistic judgment. Thus, the record has a special value for the student of the era.

Think Back on Us ...: The social record

A collection of interviews with Cowley over the long course of his career as literary critic documents his opinions on the study and teaching of writing, the role of literature, Faulkner, and U.S. intellectual history

Conversations with Malcolm Cowley

A Narrative of Ideas

"Malcolm Cowley's account of life in one's ninth decade began as a widely hailed, award-winning article in Life magazine. Enriched and enlarged with further reflections, anecdotes, and readers' responses to the original piece, it has become an elegant and touching contemporary classic"--Back cover.

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