Encounters : an anthology from the first ten years of Encounter magazine / editors Stephen Spender, Irving Kristol, Melvin J. Lasky ; selected by Melvin J. Lasky.

Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Basic Books, ©1963.
Descriptionxiii, 561 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects
English literature--20th century.
American literature--20th century.

Other author/creatorSpender, Stephen, 1909-1995.
Other author/creatorKristol, Irving.
Other author/creatorLasky, Melvin J.
Other author/creatorEberhart, Richard, 1904-2005, former owner.
Contents Persons & places. A festive occasion / Laurie Lee -- Innocent in Prussia / Goronwy Rees -- My confession / Mary McCarthy -- Bull fever / Kenneth Tynan -- An Indian notebook / Melvin J. Lasky -- The Whitaker Negroes / Robert Graves -- Sitting on a fortune / Wayland Young -- Problems & polemics. Arnold Toynbee's millennium / H.R. Trevor-Roper -- The pornography of death / Geoffrey Gorer -- The English aristocracy / Nancy Mitford -- Reply to Nancy Mitford / Evelyn Waugh -- British intellectuals / Edward Shils -- American dissent / Daniel Bell -- The trail of the dinosaur / Arthur Koestler -- Afterthoughts on the "two cultures" controversy / C.P. Snow -- Arts & letters. The gentleman with a gun / Robert Warshow -- European notebook / Stephen Spender -- The fallen city / W.H. Auden -- A wreath for the gamekeeper / Katherine Anne Porter -- "Doctor Zhivago" / Stuart Hampshire -- The middle against both ends / Leslie A. Fiedler -- Men & ideas. Montaigne, or the art of being truthful / Herbert Luethy -- Alexander Herzen / Isaiah Berlin -- The smile of Parmenides / Lionel Trilling -- H.G. Wells / Anthony West -- Ludwig Wittgenstein / Erich Heller -- "--and people opening veins in baths" / Irving Kristol -- Stories. The Messiah at the Seder / Edmund Wilson -- A thing of the past / Nadine Gordimer -- Shade those laurels / Cyril Connolly -- Fresh fields / Dan Jacobson -- A mother's tale / James Agee -- The pukey / Nigel Dennis -- Poems. Streams ; Vespers / W.H. Auden -- Ford Madox Ford / Robert Lowell -- Words for the wind / Theodore Roethke -- Lament for Prytherch / R.S. Thomas -- Monologue of a deaf man / David Wright -- Blind tide emblazoning / W.S. Graham -- Mirrors / Elizabeth Jennings -- On the move / Thom Gunn -- The mountain / W.S. Merwin -- Boyhood of Theseus / Richard Selig -- A thought from Propertius / Cyril Connolly -- Elegy / Dylan Thomas -- The final period / Roy Fuller -- Angel and man / Vernon Watkins -- The return / Richard Eberhart -- Ludwig the second / William Plomer -- The second-fated / Robert Graves -- Thrushes / Ted Hughes -- Subject : object : sentence / Stephen Spender -- Trees / Oliver Bernard -- The Whitsun weddings / Philip Larkin -- The day before the last day / Edwin Muir -- Rock paintings, Drakensberg Mts. / Alan Ross -- Solitary travel / Louis MacNeice -- Facing Africa / James Dickey -- The huge artifice ; Sight unseen / Kingsley Amis.
Local noteAutographed on front fly-leaf "Richard Eberhart." Includes dust jacket. Laid in: Basic Books, Publishers, Review Copy card for Encounters, 10/23/1963; Compliments of the Publisher card; G. P. Putnam's Sons order postcard for Judging Poetry, undated, and Ten Modern Short Novels, undated. Stuart Wright Book Collection #45.4. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Richard Ghormley Eberhart Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections.
References Wright, S. Richard Eberhart, C389
Acquisitions source Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2010
Issued in other formOnline version: Encounters. New York : Basic Books, c1963
Other title Encounter.
LCCN 63021691

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