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. Editor Tennant, Stephen, 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.
qtd. in
Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. Editor Urgo, Joseph R., 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. Editor Tennant, Stephen, 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.
qtd. in
Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. Editor Urgo, Joseph R., Broadview Press, 2003.
287-8
H. W. Boynton

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