02893nam 2200637 a 450 991078241830332120230210230225.00-8166-5738-6(CKB)1000000000689843(EBL)345373(OCoLC)476161689(SSID)ssj0000101492(PQKBManifestationID)11137711(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000101492(PQKBWorkID)10042056(PQKB)11287657(SSID)ssj0000356503(PQKBManifestationID)11248125(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000356503(PQKBWorkID)10350254(PQKB)11530430(OCoLC)233034460(MdBmJHUP)muse38754(Au-PeEL)EBL345373(CaPaEBR)ebr10231347(CaONFJC)MIL523038(MiAaPQ)EBC345373(EXLCZ)99100000000068984320720201d1964 uy eengur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAlms for oblivion essays /Edward Dahlberg ; with a foreword by Sir Herbert ReadMinneapolis :University of Minnesota Press,[1964]1 online resource (177 pages)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-6202-9 0-8166-0445-2 Foreword; Table of Contents; My Friends Stieglitz, Anderson, and Dreiser; Midwestern Fable; Word-Sick and Place-Crazy; No Love and No Thanks; Robert McAlmon: A Memoir; The Expatriates: A Memoir; For Sale; Peopleless Fiction; Chivers and Poe; Cutpurse Philosopher; Randolph Bourne; Domestic Manners of the Americans; Our Vanishing Cooperative Colonies; Florentine Codex; Beyond the Pillars of Hercules; Moby-Dick: A Hamitic Dream; Allen Tate, the Forlorn DemonThis volume makes available in book form a collection of seventeen essays by Edward Dahlberg, who has been called one of the great unrecognized writers of our time. Some of the selections have never been published before; others have appeared previously only in magazines of limited circulation. There is a foreword by Sir Herbert Read. The individual essays are on a wide range of subjects - literary, historical, philosophical, personal. The longest is a discussion of Herman Melville's work entitled "Moby-Dick - A Hamitic Dream."American literature20th centuryAmerican essays20th centuryAmerican literatureAmerican essays814.52Dahlberg Edward1900-1977.464914Read Herbert1893-1968.23576MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782418303321Alms for oblivion3796131UNINA