Books by Malcolm Cowley

Compilation of essays which examine the work and thought of sixteen American writers and poets of the post-1910 rebel generation.

Autobiographical poems explore Cowley's life and intellectual and emotional development as a literary expatriot in France after World War I.

Autobiographical poems explore Cowley's life and intellectual and emotional development as a literary expatriot in France after World War I.

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.

The narrator of this tale, a Russian aristocrat, recalls her childhood in exile in Biarritz before World War I.

This edition of Whitman's great poetry collection tries to be as true to the original 1855 edition as possible.

LEAVES OF GRASS, Whitman's monumental and enormously influential book, was his life's work, going through nine different editions from its first publication in 1855 to the famous "deathbed edition" published the year he died (1892). Influenced by Eastern religions, his years as a journalist, the Civil War, 19th-century expansionism, Nature, the theater and opera, and his own liberal sexual attitudes, LEAVES OF GRASS is both a document set firmly in its time and a great transcendent work of art. It is also one of the most popular and accessible books of poems ever written, beloved since its first publication.

For more than half a century, Malcolm Cowley cast a long shadow across the landscape of American literary criticism, forming our views of luminaries like Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and Hemingway and enhancing our understanding of dozens of others. A transplanted but long-time New Englander, Cowley focused much of his critical attention on the region's plethora of eminent authors, and this collection combines those essays with his writings about the New England he knew and loved.

An anthology of poems and essays reveals Emerson's philosophies on man, nature, and culture as well as providing insight into Emerson as a transcendentalist and New Englander.

In prose of biblical grandeur and feverish intensity, William Faulkner reconstructed the history of the American South as a tragic legend of courage and cruelty, gallantry and greed, futile nobility, and obscene crimes. He set this legend in a small, minutely realized parallel universe he called Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi.

Whitman's poetry, with its energetic style, looseness of form, and breadth of subject matter, revolutionized American writing. His declared intention was to create poetry that was distinctively American, "to give something to our literature that will be our own..."--a democratic vision that encompassed and celebrated all races and classes. Whitman's technique often involved making lists of the wonders and varieties of the human experience: contraltos, carpenters, duck-shooters, lunatics, machinists, immigrants, reformers, squaws, deckhands, millgirls, opium eaters, the President, fishermen, patriarchs, old folks--all these categories of people, plus hundreds more, appear in his work. He referred to himself in a poem as "Walt Whitman, an American.../Disorderly, fleshly and sensual," and he prophesied his own popularity when he wrote, "Missing me in one place search another,/I stop somewhere waiting for you."

Chronicles six decades of correspondence between two literary giants in letters discussing politics, literature, and the significant personal events in both of their lives during the course of their ongoing friendship.

A collection of stories reflecting the colorful times and people that were familiar to the author.

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.

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.

Whitman's poetry, with its energetic style, looseness of form, and breadth of subject matter, revolutionized American writing. His declared intention was to create poetry that was distinctively American, "to give something to our literature that will be our own..."--a democratic vision that encompassed and celebrated all races and classes. Whitman's technique often involved making lists of the wonders and varieties of the human experience: contraltos, carpenters, duck-shooters, lunatics, machinists, immigrants, reformers, squaws, deckhands, millgirls, opium eaters, the President, fishermen, patriarchs, old folks--all these categories of people, plus hundreds more, appear in his work. He referred to himself in a poem as "Walt Whitman, an American.../Disorderly, fleshly and sensual," and he prophesied his own popularity when he wrote, "Missing me in one place search another,/I stop somewhere waiting for you."