THE COLLECTED ESSAYS OF JOHN PEALE BISHOP

A marked contribution to America's growing body of literary criticism. Bishop's contribution by way of critical acumen and insight was no mean gift. He adds stature to the role of the South in America's regional culture, and has brought his trained intelligence and critical faculty to bear on all the modern arts:- in prose, Scott Fitsgeraldy, Thomas Wolfe, Sherwood Anderson; in poetry, Cummings and Housman; in painting, Pioasse and Chirico. He showed early and brilliant insight into the art of the cinema- an original talent in this country. To all material he brought a fresh if not definitive viewpoint; he met new things with intellectual lucidity. There are more profound American arities; there are few who write with so much point and wit. The editor has included not only the longer pleases, but short, witty, sparkling fragments; Unfortunately, audience.