Assault on Mount Helicon (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary Barnard
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Literary history/memoir
- Time of Work: 1914-1981
- Setting: The United States and Italy
- Principal Characters: Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, James Laughlin, Carl Van Doren
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, United States or Americans, Memory, Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets, Historians, English language, Letters, Italy or Italians
Form and Content
Donald Hall, in the introduction to Remembering Poets: Reminiscences and Opinions (1978), his account of Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound, makes the modest claim, “There is a minor tradition in literature . . . [that] derives from curiosity about people we admire.” Hall places his book in the “genre of literary gossip” in an attempt to deflect criticism from those scholars who have tried to separate the written text entirely from the author’s life, but he also asserts that as a writer himself, “this book records a...
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