Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961 / 2008-06-10 00:00:00

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DEFINITIONS
ESSAYS IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM
BY
HENRY 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


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author wishes to acknowledge the courtesy of _The Atlantic
Monthly, Harper's Magazine, The Century Magazine, The Literary
Review of The New York Evening Post, The Bookman, The Nation, and
The North American Review_ for permission to reprint such of
these essays as have appeared in their columns.


PREFACE

The unity of this book is to be sought in the point of view of the
writer rather than in a sequence of chapters developing a single
theme and arriving at categorical conclusions. Literature in a
civilization like ours, which is trying to be both sophisticated
and democratic at the same moment of time, has so many sources and
so many manifestations, is so much involved with our social
background, and is so much a question of life as well as of art,
that many doors have to be opened before one begins to approach an
understanding.
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