H. L. Mencken

Standard Name: Mencken, H. L.

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Literary responses	Willa Cather	WC 's own later comments on this book were somewhat grudging. It was conventional, she said, carefully arranged but unnecessary and superficial. Cather, Willa. On Writing. Tennant, StephenEditor , Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. 92 When she wrote it she thought it a great thing that the...
Literary responses	Willa Cather	H. L. Mencken called this a book of very fine achievement and of even finer promise. Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. Urgo, Joseph R.Editor , Broadview Press, 2003. 297 In 1979 A. S. Byatt wrote that her own personal material gave WCa way of developing a...
Literary responses	Willa Cather	A review by Randolph Bourne in the USA levelled much the same criticisms as William Heinemann in England. Cather, Willa. On Writing. Tennant, StephenEditor , Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. 96 H. L. Mencken , however, thought this book still more competent, more searching and convincing, better...
Literary responses	Willa Cather	Reviews were in the main enthusiastic. Randolph Bourne wrote in the Dial: It has all the artistic simplicity of material that has been patiently shaped until everything irrelevant has been scraped away. Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. Urgo, Joseph R.Editor , Broadview Press, 2003. 287-8 H. W. Boynton

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