LEADER 02921nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910454739203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8166-5738-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000689843 035 $a(EBL)345373 035 $a(OCoLC)476161689 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000101492 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11137711 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000101492 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10042056 035 $a(PQKB)11287657 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000356503 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11248125 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000356503 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10350254 035 $a(PQKB)11530430 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC345373 035 $a(OCoLC)233034460 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse38754 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL345373 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10231347 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL523038 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000689843 100 $a20720201d1964 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAlms for oblivion$b[electronic resource] $eessays /$fby Edward Dahlberg ; with a foreword by Sir Herbert Read 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$d[1964] 215 $a1 online resource (177 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-6202-9 311 $a0-8166-0445-2 327 $aForeword; 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 Demon 330 $aThis 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." The fate of authors at the hands of reviewers is the subject of 606 $aAmerican literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature. 676 $a814.52 700 $aDahlberg$b Edward$f1900-1977.$0464914 701 $aRead$b Herbert$f1893-1968.$023576 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454739203321 996 $aAlms for oblivion$92481138 997 $aUNINA