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The Power of Delight: A Lifetime in Literature: Essays 1962-2002
The Power of Delight A Lifetime in Literature Essays 19622002 Author:John Bayley, LEO CAREY A magnum opus and a cause for celebration from one of the world's foremost critics. Beginning his career at Oxford in the 1950s, the ever-incisive John Bayley has been one of the great bulwarksin the tradition of William Hazlitt and Edmund Wilsonof twentieth-century world literature, and his distinctive sensibility has reshap... more »ed tastes and theories more than was previously realized. Here, in The Power of Delight, a volume that has been assembled with the assistance of The New Yorker editor Leo Carey, we see at last the full range of Bayley's life and work, divided into eight sections that include "English Literature," "Russian Novels," and "American Poetry." A wide-ranging guide to essential reading, The Power of Delight examines classics, neglected gems, and masterpieces of our timefrom Jane Austen to Milan Kundera, Leo Tolstoy to John Ashbery, and from Robert Lowell's messy persona to George Orwell's self-canonization.« less