Behind-the-scenes photographs and stories about the cast of the Hollywood spectacular are accompanied by stills, descriptions of the film's TV premiere in 1976, and pictures of the mementos and memorabilia the film has inspired

Scarlett Fever: The Ultimate Pictorial Treasury of Gone With the Wind : Featuring the Collection of Herb Bridges

Humor & Entertainment

Pratt, William

Movies

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Scarlett Fever: The Ultimate Pictorial Treasury of Gone with the Wind: Featuring the Collection of Herb Bridges

MacMillan Publishing Company

Singing the Chaos: Madness and Wisdom in Modern Poetry combines both a historical and a critical approach toward the works of major British, American, French, German, and Russian poets. Comprehensive in scope and arranged chronologically to survey a century of high poetic achievement, the study is unified by Pratt's overriding argument that "modern poets have endowed a disintegrating civilization with humane wisdom by 'singing the chaos' that surrounds them, making ours a great age in spite of itself."
In developing this central theme, Pratt brings alive the energy, the freshness, and the originality of technique that made Baudelaire, Pound, Yeats, Rilke, Eliot, and others the initiators of the revolution in poetry. He brings a more complete, clearer perspective to other major themes: modernism as an age of irony; poets as both madmen and geniuses; the modern poet as tragic hero; the dominance of religious or visionary truths over social or political issues; and the combination of radical experiments in poetic form with an apocalyptic view of Western civilization. His detailed treatment of the Fugitive poets and his recognition of their prominent role in twentieth-century literature constitute an important historical revision.
Brilliantly informed, insightful, and, above all, accurately sympathetic to the points of view of the poets Pratt presents, Singing the Chaos is that rare book that belongs on all shelves devoted to modernist poetry.

Singing the Chaos: Madness and Wisdom in Modern Poetry (Volume 1)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

University of Missouri

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

The Fugitive Poets: Modern Southern Poetry in Perspective - Primary Source Edition

History

Nabu Press

The Fugitive Poets: Modern Southern Poetry in Perspective

Andesite Press

The indispensable anthology of poetry from the Fugitive group, this collection chronicles the impact of literary modernism on these Southern poets as their region took a “backward glance” before coming to terms with the modern world. Southern Classics Series.

The Fugitive Poets: Modern Southern Poetry (Southern Classics Series)

J.S. Sanders Books

Book by Shriver, Phillip R., Pratt, William

Miami University: A Personal History

Shriver, Phillip R.

Americas

Miami Univ Pr

A Faulkner Profile: The Man and The Writer (Writers and Their Contexts)

This major new work by a distinguished scholar is the result of a life-time’s fascination with Faulkner, whom the author met. His reflections on these meetings are a unique insight into the mind of a man who was notorious for his wish for privacy. So, too, is his analysis of the works of the great novelist and Nobel Prize winner. / As Professor Pratt writes: “In New Orleans in the early 1920s, when William Faulkner and Roark Bradford were young writers trying to make their mark in the world, Faulkner told his friend, ‘I hope to be the only unregimented and unrecorded individual left in the world.’ It was his ambition to be forgotten as a man and to live only in his work. He held to that ambition for a long time, evading publicity and giving misleading answers to interviewers who sought him out, but fame caught up with him eventually, and forced him to acknowledge that readers interested in his work would naturally want to know more about the author. He might prefer anonymity, but he could not escape fame. For years he struggled to earn a living as a writer, and only when his books began to sell did he realize that his originality as a writer would lead readers to seek the source of it, to be curious about the personality of the man who possessed such an astonishing command of words.” / This new work by Professor Pratt supplies much important new material to offset Faulkner’s reticence, alongside his eloquence as a writer. From the start, Faulkner cultivated a style that was elusive and difficult, consciously original in technique and intellectually challenging, choosing his words carefully in ways that were baffling to many readers. Yet he succeeded to an astonishing degree in appealing to a wider and wider circle of readers. He did so by becoming a major participant in the movement that dominated twentieth century literature - the Age of Modernism. / In literature, Modernism was chiefly the creation of three major poets and three major novelists: Yeats, Pound, and Eliot, and the novelists Joyce, Hemingway, and Faulkner. Together, they fashioned a new literary style out of a variety of personal styles. Through collaborating or interacting with each other they produced, in the first half of the twentieth century, a series of masterpieces in poetry and fiction. Hemingway and Faulkner were the youngest and last to acquire a world audience. What they learned from the older Modernists was how to intrigue, mystify, and induce readers to enter into a poem or story so deeply that they would experience what the French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé had earlier called “the delicious joy of believing he is creating” the very work he is reading. / To know Faulkner the man is as challenging as to understand Faulkner the writer, but his two identities were linked, though most of those who knew him well are no longer with us. Professor Pratt was not in his circle of intimate friends and family, but he did get to know some of them. He met Faulkner in Oxford, Mississippi, his home town, by the good luck of having a family connection. He tells detailed stories of meeting Faulkner. / He writes: “My first real encounter with Faulkner taught me something important, that the author and the man are never exactly the same, that the imagined voice of a writer can be quite different from his actual voice as a man. The difference between Faulkner the man and Faulkner the writer were obvious as soon as I met him. Though he was formidable as a writer, as a man he was deceptively shy.” / The works and personality of the great novelist are much illuminated by this remarkable book.

Edward Everett Root

This major new work by a distinguished scholar is the result of a life-time's fascination with Faulkner, whom the author met. His reflections on these meetings are a unique insight into the mind of a man who was notorious for his wish for privacy. So, too, is his analysis of the works of the great novelist and Nobel Prize winner. / As Professor Pratt writes: "In New Orleans in the early 1920s, when William Faulkner and Roark Bradford were young writers trying to make their mark in the world, Faulkner told his friend, 'I hope to be the only unregimented and unrecorded individual left in the world.' It was his ambition to be forgotten as a man and to live only in his work. He held to that ambition for a long time, evading publicity and giving misleading answers to interviewers who sought him out, but fame caught up with him eventually, and forced him to acknowledge that readers interested in his work would naturally want to know more about the author. He might prefer anonymity, but he could not escape fame. For years he struggled to earn a living as a writer, and only when his books began to sell did he realize that his originality as a writer would lead readers to seek the source of it, to be curious about the personality of the man who possessed such an astonishing command of words." / This new work by Professor Pratt supplies much important new material to offset Faulkner's reticence, alongside his eloquence as a writer. From the start, Faulkner cultivated a style that was elusive and difficult, consciously original in technique and intellectually challenging, choosing his words carefully in ways that were baffling to many readers. Yet he succeeded to an astonishing degree in appealing to a wider and wider circle of readers. He did so by becoming a major participant in the movement that dominated twentieth century literature - the Age of Modernism. / In literature, Modernism was chiefly the creation of three major poets and three major novelists: Yeats, Pound, and Eliot, and the novelists Joyce, Hemingway, and Faulkner. Together, they fashioned a new literary style out of a variety of personal styles. Through collaborating or interacting with each other they produced, in the first half of the twentieth century, a series of masterpieces in poetry and fiction. Hemingway and Faulkner were the youngest and last to acquire a world audience. What they learned from the older Modernists was how to intrigue, mystify, and induce readers to enter into a poem or story so deeply that they would experience what the French Symbolist poet St phane Mallarm had earlier called "the delicious joy of believing he is creating" the very work he is reading. / To know Faulkner the man is as challenging as to understand Faulkner the writer, but his two identities were linked, though most of those who knew him well are no longer with us. Professor Pratt was not in his circle of intimate friends and family, but he did get to know some of them. He met Faulkner in Oxford, Mississippi, his home town, by the good luck of having a family connection. He tells detailed stories of meeting Faulkner. / He writes: "My first real encounter with Faulkner taught me something important, that the author and the man are never exactly the same, that the imagined voice of a writer can be quite different from his actual voice as a man. The difference between Faulkner the man and Faulkner the writer were obvious as soon as I met him. Though he was formidable as a writer, as a man he was deceptively shy." / The works and personality of the great novelist are much illuminated by this remarkable book.

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Scarlett Fever: The Ultimate Pictorial Treasury of Gone With the Wind : Featuring the Collection of Herb Bridges

Scarlett Fever: The Ultimate Pictorial Treasury of Gone with the Wind: Featuring the Collection of Herb Bridges

Singing the Chaos: Madness and Wisdom in Modern Poetry (Volume 1)

The Fugitive Poets: Modern Southern Poetry in Perspective - Primary Source Edition

The Fugitive Poets: Modern Southern Poetry in Perspective

The Fugitive Poets: Modern Southern Poetry (Southern Classics Series)

Miami University: A Personal History

A Faulkner Profile: The Man and The Writer (Writers and Their Contexts)

A Faulkner Profile: The Man and The Writer (Writers and Their Contexts)