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Encounters: An Anthology from the First Ten Years of Encounter Magazine

by Melvin Lasky J., Irving Kristol, Stephen Spender

Pages: 562

Contributors: Melvin Lasky J.,Irving Kristol,Stephen Spender

Publisher: Basic Books

Place of Publication: New York

Publication Year: 1963

Subjects: English Literature--20th Century,American Literature--20th Century

Table of Contents

Title Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Part I: Persons & Places

A Festive Occasion: Letter from Cannes

Innocent in Prussia

My Confession

Bull Fever

An Indian Notebook

The Whitaker Negroes

Sitting on a Fortune

Part II: Problems & Polemics

Arnold Toynbee's Millennium

The Pomography of Death

The English Aristocracy

An Open Letter to the Hon. Mrs. Peter Rodd (Nancy Mitford) on a Very Serious Subject

British Intellectuals

American Dissent

The Trail of the Dinosaur

Afterthoughts on the "Two Cultures" Controversy

Part III: Arts & Letters

European Notebook

The Fallen City: Some Reflections on Shakespeare's Henry IV

A Wreath for the Gamekeeper

Doctor Zhivago: As from a Lost Culture

The Middle Against Both Ends

Part IV Men & Ideas

Montaigne, or the Art of Being Truthful

Alexander Herzen

The Smile of Parmenides

H. G. Wells

Ludwig Wittgenstein

... and People Opening Veins in Baths

Part V: Stories

The Messiah at the Seder

A Thing of the Past

Shade Those Laurels

Fresh Fields

A Mother's Tale

The Pukey

Part VI: Poems

Streams: (for Elizabeth Drew)

Ford Madox Ford 1873-1939

Words for the Wind

Lament for Prytherch

Monologue of a Deaf Man

Blind Tide Emblazoning

Mirrors

On the Move

The Mountain

Boyhood of Theseus

A Thought from Propertius

Elegy

The Final Period

Angel and Man

The Retum

Ludwig the Second

The Second-Fated

Thrushes

Subject: Object: Sentence

Trees

The Whitsun Weddings

The Day Before the Last Day

Rock Paintings, Drakensberg Mts.

Solitary Travel

Facing Africa

The Huge Artifice

Notes on Authors

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