CONTENTS PREFACE I. ON FICTION SENTIMENTAL AMERICA FREE FICTION I ON FICTION SENTIMENTAL AMERICA A CERTAIN CONDESCENSION TOWARD FICTION II ON THE AMERICAN TRADITION THE AMERICAN TRADITION III THE NEW GENERATION THE YOUNG ROMANTICS IV THE REVIEWING OF BOOKS A PROSPECTUS FOR CRITICISM MRS. WHARTON'S "THE AGE OF INNOCENCE" V PHILISTINES AND DILETTANTE POETRY FOR THE UNPOETICAL VI MEN AND THEIR BOOKS CONRAD AND MELVILLE AFTER SCENE SPIRIT OF THE YEARS VII CONCLUSION DEFINING THE INDEFINABLE Title: Definitions Author: Henry Seidel Canby Edition: 10 Language: English Produced by Ralph Zimmerman, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team DEFINITIONSESSAYS IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISMBYHENRY SEIDEL CANBY, Ph.D. Editor of The Literary Review of The New York Evening Post, and a member of the English Department of Yale University. NEW YORK |