People Places and books
by Highet, Gilbert frey50
Published by : Oxford University Press (New York) , 1953 Physical details: 277 p.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 800 - 899 | 820.4 Hig (Browse shelf) | Available | 30229 |
Includes index
Henry Fowler : modern English usage -- Science and humanism : Sir William Osler -- An American poet [Robinson Jeffers] -- The criticism of Edmund Wilson -- Lawrence in America -- Poetry and romance : John Masefield -- Enigma with variations : Donald Tovey -- The poet and the modern stage : Christopher Fry -- Dickens as a dramatist -- Mr. Eliot -- The autobiography of Shakespeare -- The old gentleman -- The West -- Oxford and its press -- From world to world -- A guide to Oxford -- Sailing to Byzantium -- Unpacking the Great Books -- Science for the unscientific -- The historian's job -- The making of literature -- Crime and punishment, sometimes -- Narcissus the novelist -- The museum without walls -- The art of translation -- The pleasures of satire -- Books and cooks -- The sense of nonsense : Dada and surrealism -- The case of the disappearing detectives -- Prison books.