The Roving Critic
by Carl Van Doren
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About this eBook
- Author
- Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950
- Title
- The roving critic
- Original Publication
- New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923.
- Credits
- Bob Taylor, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- American essays -- 20th century
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 75524
- Release Date
- March 4, 2025
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.THE ROVING CRITIC
- 3.Untitled
- 4.Untitled
- 5.Untitled
- 6.Untitled
- 7.Untitled
- 8.CONTENTS
- 9.Untitled
- 10.I. TOWARD A CREED
- 11.A FOURTH DIMENSION IN CRITICISM — THE REVENGE OF THE BARDS — CREATIVE READING
- 12.II. THREE OF OUR CONQUERORS
- 13.THE POETICAL CULT OF LINCOLN — WHITMAN IN HIS CRISES — THE LION AND THE UNIFORM
- 14.III. TWO NOTES ON YOUTH
- 15.THE RELEASE OF YOUTH — YOUTH IS ALWAYS RIGHT
- 16.IV. HOWELLS: MAY 1920
- 17.EULOGIUM
- 18.V. NOOKS AND FRINGES
- 19.ON HATING THE PROVINCES — WHAT THE FATHERS READ — THE KIND MOTHER OF US ALL — MOCHA DICK — FOLK-LORE IN KENTUCKY — PAUL BUNYAN GOES WEST — THE WORST AMERICAN BOOK — AT THE SATURDAY CLUB — THE SILVER AGE OF OUR LITERATURE — JOHN BURROUGHS — BROAD HOUSE AND NARROW HOUSE — GOOD NAMES — PICTURES OF THE PAST — THE GREAT LABORATORY
- 20.VI. LONG ROADS
- 21.THE COSMIC IRONIES — JUSTICE OR MELODRAMA? — THE CORRUPTION OF COMFORT — “GOD IS NOT DEAD OF OLD AGE”
- 22.VII. SHORT CUTS
- 23.PETIT UP TO THIRTY — IN LIEU OF THE LAUREATE — “MURDERING BEAUTY” — CHAIRS — INISHMORE, INISHMAAN, INISHEER — SWEETNESS OR LIGHT — Crowning the Bishop
- 24.VIII. A CASUAL SHELF
- 25.HONESTY IS A GIFT — GOLDEN LYRICS — THE CHRISTIAN DIPLOMAT — LAWYER AND ELEGIST — WOMEN IN LOVE — MOSES IN MASSACHUSETTS — BROWN GIRLS — INVENTION AND VERACITY — A HERO WITH HIS POSSE — MARIA AND BATOUALA — STUPID SCANDAL — The Muse of Knickerbocker
- 26.IX. POETS’ CORNER
- 27.GREEK DIGNITY AND YANKEE EASE — THROUGH ELLIS ISLAND — TAP-ROOT OR MELTING-POT?
- 28.X. IN THE OPEN
- 29.AUGUST NIGHTS AND AUGUST DAYS — LAKE AND BIRD — FIREFLIES IN CORNWALL — GARDENS — Transcriber’s Notes
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