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The Importance of Scrutiny: Selections from Scrutiny: a Quarterly Review, 1932-1948
By Eric Bentley
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgements xi
- Introduction xiii
- Part I Scrutiny and Modern Culture 1
- Three Editorials 1
- Criticism and Literary History 12
- Literary Criticism and Philosophy 23
- The Discipline of Letters a Sociological Note 41
- Part 11 Three Great Critics 57
- Samuel Johnson 76
- Matthew Amold 88
- Part III Three Great Poets 99
- Shakespeare 99
- Coleridge 169
- Dickens Dickens, Drama, and Tradition, by R. C. Churchill 182
- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgements xi
- Introduction xiii
- Part I Scrutiny and Modern Culture 1
- Three Editorials 1
- Criticism and Literary History 12
- Literary Criticism and Philosophy 23
- The Discipline of Letters a Sociological Note 41
- Part 11 Three Great Critics 57
- Samuel Johnson 76
- Matthew Amold 88
- Part III Three Great Poets 99
- Shakespeare 99
- Coleridge 169
- Dickens Dickens, Drama, and Tradition, by R. C. Churchill 182
- Part IV Four Versions of Drama 203
- Tragic Philosophy 203
- Tragedy and the "Medium" 214
- Notes on Comedy 227
- Music and the Dramatic 238
- Part V a Modern Miscellany 249
- Auden's Inverted Development for the Time Being, by W. H. Auden 249
- From Playground to Grave 255
- T. S. Eliot 262
- E. M. Forster 295
- Rémy De Gourmont Rémy De Gourmont--Precursor Rémy De Gourmont--Essai De Biographie Intellectuelle, by Garnet Rees 311
- T. E. Hulme the T. E. Hulme Myth T. E. Hulme, by Michael Roberts 314
- James Joyce Joyce and "The Revolution of the Word" Transition 22 Transition I-Viii, Xi-Xiii, Xv, XVIII Anna Livia Plurabelle, by James Joyce Haveth Childers Everywhere, by James Joyce Two Tales of Shem and Shaum, by James Joyce Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress, by Samuel Beckett and Others the Language of Night, by Eugene Jolas 316
- Rudyard Kipling a Case for Kipling? 324
- D. H. Lawrence the Wild, Untutored Phoenix 338
- Marcel Proust 344
- I. A. Richards 349
- Virginia Woolf 378
- Appendices 393